@mobilenvidia Thank you for these instructions.
Currently, I have a LSI 9270CV-8i with 4xHDD in RAID 10 mode (worked pretty well for couple of years)
It is a LSISAS2208 controller and even though it is a Dell's card, key IQ3TCNMDM6DCXGQ24J1IWR56FX2RAGWES7T822AZ trial works without problems.
But MegaCli.exe does not seem to recognize the card on Windows 10 so I could not use MegaCli.exe with commandprompt (in Administrator mode). I had to set CacheCade (on Intel 3700 80GB) via MegaRaid Storage manager.
If somebody has any advice about this, I will be glad to try it.
I will test 2 things and report about it in a case there are others interested:
- if I can prolong trial via MegaRaid Storage manager on Win10 and if it adds 30 days again
- in couple of days I plan to switch this workstation to Linux - if I probably will be able to use
megacli elf applykey key IQ3TCNMDM6DCXGQ24J1IWR56FX2RAGWES7T822AZ -a0
or
storcli elf applykey key IQ3TCNMDM6DCXGQ24J1IWR56FX2RAGWES7T822AZ -a0
This looks like a precondition if this card will stay running instead of a ZFS on proxmox setup.
LSI9260 and lower seem like obsolete choices to me, but 2208 controller with cachecade might still be relevant in a case where you do not want to dedicate lots of RAM to ZFS or on a windows machine for a 4-6x HDD + 2x SSD for cachecade.
Until recently H310 mini seemed like a yellow-brick and so I bought H710p. On Dell R620/720 it has CacheCade (read) enabled by default, so I am considering having LSI9270 and H710p run on separate machines, but for similar workloads.