Adaptec ASR-71605 16 Ports Raid Card AFM-700 1GB Cache with Battery - $18 (ebay)

[e97]

Not as great as the gold standard LSI HBA.

Some folks report issues with True NAS ZFS and others report no issues, but for $18 might be worth a shot.

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[Samir]

Price just went up to $20. Truenas aside, sounds like these are just fine though as an sas card, right?

 

[e97]

Ha, I guess 4 more sold and a bunch of views was enough to drive the price back to $20. As I'm in no need, I'll wait for $13

For ZFS you want the JBOD/HBA/passthorugh mode, I'm not sure if people with issues are not using the right mode or what.

As a SAS cards, I think they would be perfectly fine.

PCIe Gen 3 vs the LSI 9200 (Gen 2) that you find for under $20, needs cooling like most storage cards.

 

[Shados]

Yeah, I have another ASR-7* Adaptec card in use for a ZFS array, it works very well. Keep in mind that if you stick one in a consumer case, you'll likely need to mount a fan blowing onto it, as they're explicitly designed for fairly high-airflow (200 LFM+) and will *loudly* beep at you if their temperature goes above a set limit.

 

[Sean Ho]

Another nice thing about ASRs is no need to crossflash to IT mode; just flip the switch to HBA mode via BIOS OPROM or arcconf. Note these are still SAS2 despite using 8643.

 

[EasyRhino]

Another nice thing about ASRs is no need to crossflash to IT mode; just flip the switch to HBA mode via BIOS OPROM or arcconf. Note these are still SAS2 despite using 8643.

oh, only SAS2, strange.
Also it looks like these are not supported in vmware esxi 7+ if you neeed that.

 

[Cruzader]

oh, only SAS2, strange.
Also it looks like these are not supported in vmware esxi 7+ if you neeed that.

Need a 3000 chip for that yeah, you can still passthru it to a VM atleast tho.