Ordered one last week, received it yesterday. Seems that I am less lucky than you guys - the board does not boot (I can see some things being initialized but at some point it displays a Supermicro logo and doesn't continue), I am unable to enter the BIOS, and I cannot access the IPMI for...
Tested this one in a whitebox, it works without any hassle on Debian. However, it will not work with the IBM 46M0997 expander (and it may not be compatible with other SAS/SAS2 expanders either), so don't buy it if that's your intended use case.
You don't need an HP server to configure this HBA...
How many do you need? I've got one Intel 545s (256GB) and nine Crucial MX500 (500GB) that I'm looking to sell. Belgium based. Feel free to send me a PM.
Good to finally have some clarity on this issue. I don't particularly like WD's patronizing tone when they talk about 'typical workloads' - as if a ZFS RAID is such an odd use case for a small business or enthousiast user. Their answer also seems to imply that the drives are meant for...
I just acquired a Broadcom 9400-16i HBA for my home server that is supposed to replace an older LSI controller. My previous configuration consisted of a mix of different brands and types of drives (Crucial BX500 and MX500, Intel 545s, Samsung 860 EVO), which worked just fine. Unfortunately with...
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