this is a great raid card (sas2 but has 4x ports, and are sasmini HD ports fyi).
I have the 71685 (among many other adaptecs) , which is about the same card, and am seeing excellent benchmarks with hgst SSDs (will be posting that in a different thread in a day or 2 when im done).
should be fine for esxi 6.5u2 (prob 6.7 too) CIM guest monitoring (def is fine for normal esxi volume driver) - i have a older 6805 on 6.5u2 (but getting CIM / monitoring in a guest, was a pain, but i got it working- however according to adaptec support their series 7 and 8 are much better/easier with CIM support in esxi).
i have a 45$ offer in for this listing, will the accepted price (45 would be amazing price).
i love adaptec cards specifically, as they allow you to created teired raids (or stacked raids), meaning you can have a set of 4x disks, and have a Raid6 volume AND a 2nd raid0 volume, as an example. (you cant do with with LSI)
also that is a capacitor via the wire in the pict (not a PIA battery). (s7 cap kits sell for 70-120$ ALONE on ebay)
ASR-71605 Adaptec 16 Port 2274400-R SAS SATA 6Gbps 1GB PCIe RAID Controller Card | eBay
EDIT: another seller with CARD only (no CAP backup unit, i would go for the CAP backup one above though , wow, some big host/company must have moved to SDS recently!): $60 obo:
ASR-71605 Adaptec 16 Port SAS/SATA 6Gbps PCIe x8 3.0 Raid Controller 1GB HP | eBay
FWIW; i really like Adaptec's naming scheme ... (YOU HEAR THAT LSI!)
(series) , (internal ports), (external ports), (# 5 for something?)
ie 7 16 8 5
or 6 8 0 5
or 5 16 4 5
I have the 71685 (among many other adaptecs) , which is about the same card, and am seeing excellent benchmarks with hgst SSDs (will be posting that in a different thread in a day or 2 when im done).
should be fine for esxi 6.5u2 (prob 6.7 too) CIM guest monitoring (def is fine for normal esxi volume driver) - i have a older 6805 on 6.5u2 (but getting CIM / monitoring in a guest, was a pain, but i got it working- however according to adaptec support their series 7 and 8 are much better/easier with CIM support in esxi).
i have a 45$ offer in for this listing, will the accepted price (45 would be amazing price).
i love adaptec cards specifically, as they allow you to created teired raids (or stacked raids), meaning you can have a set of 4x disks, and have a Raid6 volume AND a 2nd raid0 volume, as an example. (you cant do with with LSI)
also that is a capacitor via the wire in the pict (not a PIA battery). (s7 cap kits sell for 70-120$ ALONE on ebay)
ASR-71605 Adaptec 16 Port 2274400-R SAS SATA 6Gbps 1GB PCIe RAID Controller Card | eBay
EDIT: another seller with CARD only (no CAP backup unit, i would go for the CAP backup one above though , wow, some big host/company must have moved to SDS recently!): $60 obo:
ASR-71605 Adaptec 16 Port SAS/SATA 6Gbps PCIe x8 3.0 Raid Controller 1GB HP | eBay
FWIW; i really like Adaptec's naming scheme ... (YOU HEAR THAT LSI!)
(series) , (internal ports), (external ports), (# 5 for something?)
ie 7 16 8 5
or 6 8 0 5
or 5 16 4 5
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