Upgrade from intel celeron to xeon x5 motherboard

[medmad]

My current system has an intel Celeron G1610 dual core on a Gigabyte GA-H61M, 8Gb and a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 controller. I have recently purchased an Asus Z9PA-D8 with Dual X5-2670v2 cpu's and an attached PIKE 2008 controller card and wish to make a swap. I have a few concerns over the transfer, mostly around the controller. I am not sure if the new to me hardware (Pike 2008) has been flashed to IT mode or not. In the near future I am planning on getting a Supermicro chassis with 36 hot swap bays that have 2 backplanes that can be driven by an HBA card. My question is can the Pike 2008 be used as the HBA that interfaces with the 2 backplanes (BPN-SAS2-846EL1, BPN-SAS2-826EL1) since the Pike card uses 8 SATA connectors on the motherboard and the backplanes want SFF 8087 connectors. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[JorgeB]

8 hours ago, medmad said:

My question is can the Pike 2008 be used as the HBA that interfaces with the 2 backplanes (BPN-SAS2-846EL1, BPN-SAS2-826EL1) since the Pike card uses 8 SATA connectors on the motherboard and the backplanes want SFF 8087 connectors.

Yes, but for best results with Unraid make sure it's flashed to IT mode.

[medmad]

Thanks, once installed I will check that the Pike card is IT mode or flash it to IT mode so it will behave well with unRaid.