hba

Hi, I recently posted a number of questions regarding SAS adaptors. To save you reading them, I’m looking for one that would add more sata drives and give me access to an LTO tape drive. My initial foray into the world of IT HBAs was not great and I ended up returning the 1st card I purchased...

Hi there! I'm searching for the following RAID-Controllers for an good Guide to flash all of them into 'IT-Mode' to get them working as HBA: - Broadcom / LSI Megaraid SAS 2208 [Thunderbold] (rev 05) - Broadcom / LSI Megaraid SAS 2008 [Falcon] (rev 03) - Broadcom / LSI Megaraid SAS 2108...

Hi I got a HP branded LSI 9205-8i allegedly it has IT/ HBA mode firmware from Ali-E. I wanted to put some SAS disks as a JBOD (Not RAID) For whatever reason this card is not showing in BIOS, and there is no splash screen with the usual 'Press Cntrl + something' I tried this card on a few...

I have 8 SAS disks, which are paired up to 4, to 2 SFF-8643 SAS cables, but the mother board has only one input for those cables, so I would need a second one. As I have 1 x8 and 2 x4 PCIe slots available I just bought my self this adapter: AMAZON LINK, but it doesn't works, because only U.2...

I have a 24HDD Innovision case, it contains 2 backplanes with 12 HDD each. The backplanes have 3 miniSASHD ports. I want to create 2x RAID5 arrays in Xpenology from the disks I have: - 9x HDD 8Tb - 15x HDD 6Tb Tell me which option of using controllers would be better? 1 9305-24i for all disks or...

Hello STH community! I wanted to get some input into the best HBA card for my setup - my "server" is a repurposed SFF workstation (HP Elitedesk 800 G1 SFF) and I'm tired of the mess of usb adapters I am using so looking to build a DAS. While I can get a $50 LSI 9206-16e low profile I understand...

Hi there! I get the following server from a collegue: To install TrueNAS on it I have to get a compatible HBA to get working it with OpenZFS / ZFS. I found this list of good HBAs to get working with TrueNAS: Top Picks for TrueNAS and FreeNAS HBAs (Host Bus Adapters) Therefore I thought about...

Hello everyone, I recently purchased an ASRock N100M motherboard with the following setup in mind: Use an ASM1166 M.2 to 5x SATA adapter to connect 4 SATA drives. Attach 2x 240GB SSDs directly to the motherboard over SATA. Install Proxmox as a bootable RAIDZ set on the 4 SATA drives. Add the 2...

Hello! I have just gotten my hands on a Dell H330, and I have two questions. Firstly, can I flash to IT mode with a different computer than the original one? I found a few guides on flashing it, but all of them seem to use the server it was in. Secondly, what cables can I use with it? In the...

Hello everyone, I’m starting to exhaust available sources of information as none of us can seem to determine the issue with this HBA so far. Been on the Unraid forums, discord, Reddit, etc and so far no luck. Current system: -Dedicated server chassis with i9-12900k, 64GB DDR5 -2x SM JBOD’s...

Hi All I decided to shrink my server from using a Supermicro X9SRI-f to an Asus mini itx based system. The Dell PERC 310 flashed to IT mode i had in the supermicro system won't show in BIOS and the splash screen with CTRL-C isn't showing. The card shows in device manager but the disks aren't...

I would like to build a 1u rackmount nas enclosure attached to my MS-01. Ideally 16 nvme modules using 2 * 5.25 slots but I havent found a short chassis of 1u with 2 x 5.25 slots yet. If you have any idea for that it would great. The 5.25 to nvme modules I want to use are these : MB873MP-B V2_8...

SOLUTION: Asked a friend of mine for help, they researched a bit and found this KB450057 - Using Staggered Spin Up - 45Drives Knowledge Base Checked the details of every disk in hdparm and indeed the faulty drive had this feature turned on. After running hdparm -s0 for the drive it started...

Hello!! I am troubleshooting disks not being recognized by my HBA. I have an overkill HBA for my purpose purchased used from eBay but I figured it would still work for my purpose and was reasonably priced. For my setup, I'm running: Server HPE DL360 Gen 9 x2 Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 x2 16GB...

Hi, I have recently purchased a NetApp (LSI?) Class 3650 Model 0834 Storage Array, it uses 2 x NetApp Drive Module PN 45822-00 to connect to the computer. The storage array currently (and for the near future) will be filled with 12 x 4TB Seagate EXOS Drives. After doing a lot of reading and...

Before I give ebay more of my money I thought I would ask here. I prefer a single -16e but open to two -8e. Needs to be LSI and able to flash into IT Mode. Found one locally. Thank you all. Thank you

Hello there I'm trying to setup TrueNAS Core on my HP DL380p Gen8 in a ESXI 6.5 VM. I bought a H240 HBA because I couldn't get a H220 used as some forums stated it works just fine. I installed the card in slot 2, redone the internal wiring so I actually can use it. It shows up during the boot...

I have a few threadripper boards, an asrock rack x570d4ult2 (might be wrong but it’s a very similar name). Then some standard consumer pcs, an i5 from 2013 and an x570 phantom minibus tb3. Both phantom and asrock rack use 5950x. Threadripper is on an Asus sage pro workstation with 3275, consumer...

Hello folks! I've recently acquired two T9710 which are arriving soon so they can be a home lab VMWare Cluster. I'm adding to each machine 8x SATA3 consumer level SSDs using SAS breakout cables. Those are capacity disks. I also need to add 4x NVMe M.2 SSDs. However, the T7910 doesn't have M.2...

Hi Can someone please recommend an HBA on the vmware HCL for ESXi 8.0 that either supports SATA, NVME or both and can be viewed/managed/monitored in ESXi for health/temperature reporting purposes? I just need to boot from the HBA so doesnt have to be large number of ports. Ideally the card...