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

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Samir

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

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.
 
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Shados

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