9400-8i/9500-8i where to buy?

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Hello,

I want to buy a power efficient HBA to connect SM 846 SAS3 backplane (BPN-SAS3-846EL1) to H12SSL motherboard. Is there recommended seller on ebay or otherwise (US) to get this card?

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there are fakes, but mostly located in china, and california. As long as reviews of the user are positive, and not set in china i'd say you would be good on ebay.

In one of my systems i have lenovo 430-8i and its fine; but some people had problems. *(they are cheaper option)
 
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CyklonDX said:
there are fakes, but mostly located in china, and california. As long as reviews of the user are positive, and not set in china i'd say you would be good on ebay.

In one of my systems i have lenovo 430-8i and its fine; but some people had problems. *(they are cheaper option)
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Those reference-design white-box variants from china are perfectly fine, especially for non-critical home, test- or standby servers. Never had any issues with those (or similar whie-label NICs etc) in 15+ years...
The failure risk of branded or OEM 'used/refurbished' cards is at least equally high, if not higher, especially if the environment in which they were used is unknown.
 
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sko said:
Those reference-design white-box variants from china are perfectly fine, especially for non-critical home, test- or standby servers. Never had any issues with those (or similar whie-label NICs etc) in 15+ years...
The failure risk of branded or OEM 'used/refurbished' cards is at least equally high, if not higher, especially if the environment in which they were used is unknown.
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I did have issues with counterfeit intel nic's, and old 9200 sas controllers. In short they were much older chips sold branded and overclocked as newer models.

etorix said:
And? As far as I know, nothing prevents from using a Tri-Mode card as a plain SAS HBA for SAS/SATA drives only.
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Thats right, they are still sas controllers. The tri-mode itself is a feature name that refers to support of sata/sas/pci.
 
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I bought last year october two 9500-8i from amazon us for ~96$ each (~110€ with import taxes). They were on my wishlist for a few days and then amazon gave me a coupon/offer for like 50% off :D
They came in clear plastic "boxes" with both profiles and were sealed in an antistatic bag. (I've updated the firmware a couple of times and will use them in my next file server/nas projects at home)
 
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trumee said:
Thanks for mentioning 430-8i, is it straightforward to flash these into IT mode?
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It's just an HBA so already in it mode, but it's very easy to cross-flash to the latest official Broadcom 9400-8i firmware

I did that with my Lenovo 430-16i
 
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I bought the 430-8i card.

It is recognized by the system
Code: 
$ lspci
81:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS3408 Fusion-MPT Tri-Mode I/O Controller Chip (IOC) (rev 01)
lsiutil shows the following,

Code: 
$ lsiutil 

LSI Logic MPT Configuration Utility, Version 1.72, Sep 09, 2014

1 MPT Port found

Port Name Chip Vendor/Type/Rev MPT Rev Firmware Rev IOC
1. ioc0 LSI Logic 00af 01 206 0b000300 0



Current active firmware version is 0b000300 (11.00.03)
Firmware image's version is BL 21:33:34 10/23/2019
Ventura Boot Loader Vendor Str
SCGCQ02225574
x86 BIOS image's version is MPT35BIOS-9.21.00.00 (2019.04.04)
EFI BIOS image's version is 0.11.00.00

However mstflint is unable to open it,

Code: 
$ mstflint -d 81:00.0 q full
-E- Cannot open Device: 81:00.0.
Is this the latest firmware?
 
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mattventura said:
mstflint is for mellanox cards, you want storcli.
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ah. Thanks for correcting me.

I see this,

Code: 
$ storcli show
CLI Version = 007.3103.0000.0000 Aug 22, 2024
Operating system = Linux 6.12.34
Status Code = 0
Status = Success
Description = None

Number of Controllers = 1
Host Name = portable
Operating System = Linux 6.12.34
StoreLib IT Version = 07.3200.0200.0000
StoreLib IR3 Version = 16.16-0

IT System Overview :
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ctl Model AdapterType VendId DevId SubVendId SubDevId PCI Address
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0 430-8i SAS HBA SAS3408(B0) 0x1000 0xAF 0x1D49 0x200 00:81:00:00
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


$ storcli /c0 show all
CLI Version = 007.3103.0000.0000 Aug 22, 2024
Operating system = Linux 6.12.34
Controller = 0
Status = Success
Description = None


Basics :
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Controller = 0
Adapter Type = SAS3408(B0)
Model = 430-8i SAS HBA
Serial Number = SP94xxxx
Current System Date/time = 10/22/2025 01:18:13
Concurrent commands supported = 10240
SAS Address = 50xxxx
PCI Address = 00:81:00:00


Version :
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Firmware Package Build = 11.02.00.00
Firmware Version = 11.00.03.00
Bios Version = 09.21.00.00_11.00.01.00
NVDATA Version = 12.02.00.41
PSOC FW Version = 0x0001
PSOC Part Number = 05689
Driver Name = mpt3sas
Driver Version = 48.100.00.00
 
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