We've been having major issues with our Adaptec cards. Namely - the web interface, which I use to manage the card from my desktop because it's easier - is utterly useless. It takes almost a minute between each button click before anything updates, and then when it does, it often contradicts what the BIOS tells me about the state of the RAID. It also won't send email notifications, even though other applications we use are able to send emails from that same server. Adaptec tech support took two days to tell me that they wouldn't support our ASR78165 card because it's too old (2014? I have way older LSI and Areca cards running without issues in other machines) unless we pay a fee per incident (and they broke it down into three incidents). so we're basically dead in the water right now with a super flaky RAID card that's not giving me good information so I can't diagnose problems. My hunch is that the card is toast so why bother throwing money at it just to find out it's no good.
Our requirements are as follows:
*SAS RAID Card #1: At least 5 internal SAS ports, to break out to 20 SATA drives in the main server chassis.
*SAS RAID Card #2: At least 4 External Mini-SAS ports to go to expansion JBOD chassis
We need both cards to handle 6Gbps drives, and they need to do RAID 6. A remote GUI interface is preferable - web or an application - doesn't matter. I like to be able to check on this system from home and that makes it a lot easier.
I love LSI cards, but can't find one that has enough ports for the internal. I'd prefer that both cards be the same, so a single interface could be used to manage them. Just makes things easier once it's up and running.
Our requirements are as follows:
*SAS RAID Card #1: At least 5 internal SAS ports, to break out to 20 SATA drives in the main server chassis.
*SAS RAID Card #2: At least 4 External Mini-SAS ports to go to expansion JBOD chassis
We need both cards to handle 6Gbps drives, and they need to do RAID 6. A remote GUI interface is preferable - web or an application - doesn't matter. I like to be able to check on this system from home and that makes it a lot easier.
I love LSI cards, but can't find one that has enough ports for the internal. I'd prefer that both cards be the same, so a single interface could be used to manage them. Just makes things easier once it's up and running.