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    FS: Clearing out Old Server Lab

    SPRING CLEANING - the rest goes to liquidation/recycling in a couple weeks. Long time lurker, first time poster with a bunch of old production and warehouse hardware for sale. Located in South Jersey outside Philly, can meetup in the Tri-State Metro PA/NY/NJ area (within reason). Local Pickup...
  2. TheBloke

    Conflict between LSI in PCI-E 1.1 x4 slot and onboard SATA2 ports

    Hi all Firstly, this is possibly a motherboard problem so it might belong in the mobo forum; but my symptoms relate only to disks and HBAs, so I hope it's OK being here. I have a Tyan S7012 motherboard, LGA1366 chipset. This motherboard has 4 x PCI-E 2.0 x8 slots and 1 x PCI-E 1.1 x4 slot...
  3. TheBloke

    Powering a PCI-E SAS expander without a PCI-E slot? Theoretically possible to make an adapter?

    Hi all I'm thinking of adding at least one SAS expander to my setup, as I am currently using 4 x LSI cards - and therefore 4 x PCI-E 2.0 slots - to run 28 x 2TB SATA3 drives. I know that I can put more drives on fewer cards without losing performance, but as I have a low-profile case I can't...
  4. TheBloke

    ZFS: Partitioning drives = write cache disabled?

    Hi all I'm hoping to get a high-performance PCI-E SSD to add to my home Solaris 11.3 file server/NAS. Specifically, a 1.2TB LSI Nytro Warp drive. (Forum thread here.) This device is an LSI 2308 with 6 x 200GB SSDs, which by default are configured as a hardware RAID-0. But I believe it is...
  5. TheBloke

    LSI devices appear as IDE in motherboard boot list?

    Hey all I'm doing a major upgrade on my home fileserver, and have finally upgraded from using cheap Marvell cards and mobo ports to having enough LSI ports for all my HDDs (a total of 28 ports available for 26 drives + boot SSD.) In total I have four LSI cards - 1 x 9211-4i (SAS2004), 2 x...
  6. TheBloke

    SAS2308 vs 2008 - any big value in upgrading, besides PCIE b/w?

    Here's my question in a nutshell: what are the benefits, if any, in upgrading SAS2008 cards to SAS2308 cards, besides offering PCIE 3.0 bandwidth and being capable of handling more devices (1024 vs 512)? If you had a server that only supported PCIE 2.0, containing several SAS2008 cards running...
  7. TheBloke

    LSI 2308 (9217-8i) on Solaris 11.3?

    Hey all I got my first LSI SAS HBA this week (LSI SAS 2008) and now want to get a second for my home file server running Solaris 11.3. I've found a good deal on a used LSI 9217-8i with the SAS 2308 chipset. It's priced the same as an OEM 9211-8i/SAS2008 but it's in the UK so I can get it...
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    FS: Home lab extras: Supermicro Motherboards, CPUs, HBAs and more

    Bought way too much gear for my home lab and in the process of inventorying all the excess HW and will be updating this thread. I've not done international shipping before and not familiar with the process. So, I'd prefer to limit it to CONUS but open to the idea of outside US. Prefer PayPal...
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    Supermicro X10SDV-7TP4F LSI-2116 to Lenovo SA-120

    The SuperMicro X10SDV-7TP4F ships with an onboard LSI-2116. I've never worked with an HBA or a DAS before, so I'm may be doing this wrong, but here's what I want to do: Hook up the 4 internal SFF-8643 ports to this Quad External MINI SAS HD SFF-8644 to Internal MINI SAS HD SFF-8643 12G...
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    For Sale: H220 LSI 9205-8i Controllers

    Happy 2017! I’m with The IT Mart. Our first post on the Intel 2U servers has been very well received, so I’m back with another special. (Here’s the Intel server if you’re interested). We just got a bunch of H220 controllers. These are HP branded 9205-8i LSI cards, SAS 2308. STH forum members...
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    Fujitsu 9211-8i D2607 LSISAS2008 wont flash to anything

    JUMP TO ANSWER Fujitsu 9211-8i D2607 LSISAS2008 wont flash to anything Hi Guys, I've been trying for days now to flash my new Fujitsu 9211-8i D2607 LSISAS2008 to LSI IT mode. I've tried loads of guides, sas2flash versions, firmwares, with and without the BIOS. Keeps failing on this (see...
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    LSI NYTRO WARPDRIVE 1.6TB SSD -- $449 on UNIXSurplus

    Special deal for LSI NYTRO WARPDRIVE 1.6TB SSD! $499 Apply STH exclusive Code: STH10NYTROSSD at checkout to get additional 10% discount!! And check out Black Friday Deals: BRAND NEW GOOGLE CHROMEBOOK PIXEL 32GB WIFI for only $399! DELL FORCE 10 S60-44T-AC-R 48 PORT SWITCH for only $239 + FREE...
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    Help - anyone with an Intel 910 400GB who can download the bare Intel firmware (not the intel pkg)

    (Crossposted to FreeNAS forums) I have a server with an LSI 9211-IT HBA, Intel 910 SSD, and Chelsio NIC. I was updating the HBA firmware. As usual I checked no other RAID/HBA/LSI cards in the machine, so I flashed the HBA. It now turns out that the Intel 910 uses the same chip internally -...
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    Tutorial: Updating IBM M1015/LSI 9211-8i Firmware on UEFI Systems

    Purpose: A proper MODERN tutorial on updating the firmware on the IBM M1015 on a UEFI system, in my case my IBM M1015's were already crossflashed to LSI 8211-8i long ago with the older P16 firmware which I wanted to update to the latest firmware. It is the same process either way. This tutorial...
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    IBM H1110 x4 not working in Skylake PCIe x4 slot - suggestions?

    Hey all, I have a Supermicro X11SAE-M and an IBM H1110 (SAS2004, sort of like a LSI 9211-4i but with an x4 form factor) with a Skylake Xeon E3 v5 CPU. The H1110 works in the x16 slot, but is not recognised in the x4 slot (according to Linux lspci). It shows up in the LSI BIOS control center in...
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    Lsi 9211-8i IR to IT in Esxi

    Hey! I have managed to flash it in esxi via sas2flash to the newest firmware when I tried using the raid functionality. Now I try to flash it with IT firmware so it is ready for use with freenas when I got my 2 new esxi nodes built. Has anyone been able to do sas2flash -o -e 6 in esxcli...
  17. Patrick

    1.2TB LSI Nytro Warp Drive PCIe SSDs - $240

    The LSI Nytro Warp Drive 1.2TB is a bit older so the read/ write IOPs are not crazy. On the other hand, these did use eMLC NAND in was was essentially a RAID of onboard drive PCBs. Probably the best price/performance/capacity deal out there right now but they are likely older drives: LSI 1.2TB...
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    LSI Megaraid 9266-4i Inconsistent write speeds

    I have an LSI Megaraid 9266-4i card with 22 1TB 7200 RPM drives attached as well as two 120GB SSD attached and for the life of me no matter what the configuration is I cannot get the performance to be consistent. When copying a large file it will start out at roughly 500MB/s then proceed to drop...
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    Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) on LSI based cards: How?

    So I have an IBM ServeRAID M5016 which is equivalent to an LSI 9265-8i with 1gB CacheVault. I have version 15.03.01.00 MSM installed. Right now I have a 6x6TB RAID-6 array on the card. I have two more 6TB drives I want to add to the array. Based on my Googling I supposedly should be able to...
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    Will and MSA60 enclosure work with LSI 9260-8i

    Hi guys, I have a DL380 G5 at home, with a P212 controller connected to an MSA60 via it's external port and 8088 cable. Everything with that works fine. I'd like to replace the P212 with a 9260-8i I had in an old machine, as it a better controller. I have an SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 cable...