Buy 16-PORT Int, 6GB/S Sata+sas, Pcie 2.0; In The Box: Lsi Sas 9201-16I, Qig, Driver16-PORT Int, 6GB/S Sata+sas, Pcie 2.0; In The Box: Lsi Sas 9201-16I, Qig, Driver Product Description:
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Product Description
The LSI SAS 9201-16i host bus adapter provides the greatest available throughput to internal server storage arrays through sixteen internal 6Gb/s ports, driving up to 512 SAS and SATA physical devices. This HBA offers dynamic SAS functionality including dual-port drive redundancy and SATA compatibility. The LSI SAS 9201-16i doubles the performance of previous generation SATA+SAS HBAs and is great for driving cost-effective and reliable scalability in today's data centers.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Very good value
By D
I will explicitly say that I disagree with NotLarryEllison's value perception. I cannot find any SAS2 16port HBA on a PCI Express 2.0 other than this one. If you need lots of ports and you, like I, have never found a decent port multiplier, this is it. You might get more performance and the same number of ports with 2x 8-ports, but you also consume another PCI Express slot.This sort of density, performance level, and ease of use is something I highly value.I've used SSD's to push this card to spitting distance theoretical possible throughputs. I've also used one to connect 16 optical drives for a large DVD transition project. I purchased my first card of this type In Oct 2010, and it worked with 3t drives without any new drivers/firmware as soon as I had them. I do run Linux exclusively and this may not be your experience.Unlike NotLarryEllison I have become very disinterested in hardware raid over time. I value them only in very specific circumstances. The assumptions inherent in making them fast for benchmarks/windows must be tested for and re-validated with every new set of cards and drives in my real world production use for both performance and reliability. Software raid has become a major tool I used and this card rocks for the purpose.Note the photo showing a half-height card on the product page as of the time of this writing is incorrect. This is a full-height card with 4 SFF-8087 connectors.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Not RAID
By Sulphurlad
This is a HBA - Host Bus Adapter - not a RAID Adapter.I have been drooling over this thing for 18 months, just take the plunge and buy the damn thing. I really like the fact the fact that I can move the card to new machine. It has plenty of of SATA3 or SAS2 connection, can be expanded for more, native Solaris, OpenIndiana, Nexenta, and FreeBSD, Linux, Windows Drivers.With the move to all Digital, TV Shows, Movies, Pictures, Storage in a household runs out fast. My Wife and I just had our first kid and the amount of pictures and video is growing rapidly, and Cloud storage is a joke in the capacities that we need. So I'm building a scaling disk array for the house.I currently have (4) 2 TB WD EARS Green Drives, on Windows 7, setup as individual drives.I'm using it for ZFS volumes, but it would work for Linux MD Raid, LVM, Windows Simple Spanning, software RAID. There is no cache for power interrupted writes, or a battery for it. With ZFS the cache devices is either the Drives, or a dedicated ZIL Device, like a SLC SSD. Going with ZFS because I don't trust Hardware RAID, and Software RAID can lock you in to whatever OS or hardware you created it on. But with ZFS, version 28, Linux, Solaris, BSD, MAC OS X, anyone can read from it, well except Windows.Bought this and (4) new 2 TB Seagate NCQ Video Surveillance drives. These have a better warranty then the consumer drives, 3 years vs 1 year. Bring the new ZFS Array up, transfer the Data off the NTFS Drives to the array, and then add the (4) old 2 TBs to the ZFS RAIDZ2 array. (8) 2 TB drives in RAIDZ2, N-2, equals 12 TB of Storage all in an ATX mid tower. Word to anyone planning a ZFS array with 2 TB WD EARS Green Drives.... Don't, unless you change the Firmware to stop them from powering down every damn second, causing them to cycle, and prematurely age.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Works as designed, but not a great value and not hardware RAID
By NotLarryEllison
Main reason for 3 stars is that I feel that this is a very expensive card for what you're getting (see below). Also, it wouldn't work with 3TB drives out of the box. I had to do a firmware update to make them work, which just happened to be available - literally - the day I called LSI for support. If I had bought this a month ago, I would have been REALLY upset!I definitely should have read product description more thoroughly -- I didn't realize that this card is NOT hardware RAID. It's just a basic HBA that presents the drives to the OS individually. More normal "consumer-oriented" cards will cost under a hundred, but by paying for this one you're getting:* It's capable of SAS (as well as SATA) - consumer oriented cards will be SATA-only* It can control up to 16 drives (or more with a SAS Expander) - normal cards will be more like 2 or 4Again, the 3 stars is not because I didn't read the specs close enough - I just don't feel the price is commensurate with the value you're getting.Unfortunately, I'll have to send it back and ask seller to give me a more expensive unit that will do the hardware RAID I'm looking for.
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