I am planning on getting another 24 bay rack and also thinking about using an expander in the main case for its 16 bays so I can try and run everything from 1 pci-e slot via an LSI-SAS9201 Ideally I wanted 8e8i but not finding any such beast going cheap
LSI SAS9201-16e 16 Port 6Gb/s SAS SATA PCI-E HBA Adapter JBOD RAID H3-25577-00A | eBay
should I get a 16 port expander or 24 port expander? only a few $ difference between them
I am assuming no degraded performance using 24 port for running 16 drives?
at least this way I can have a backup part if a 24 port expander fails and I could jerry-rig my M1015's to run the 16 internal bays again
I am just not sure how the lanes are divided, assuming they get shared as more drives are added?
New HP SAS Expender Card 24-Port SAS PCI-E Expander Board 468405-001 | eBay
IBM 46M0997 ServeRAID Expansion Adapter 16-Port SAS Expander | eBay
LSI SAS9201-16e 16 Port 6Gb/s SAS SATA PCI-E HBA Adapter JBOD RAID H3-25577-00A | eBay
should I get a 16 port expander or 24 port expander? only a few $ difference between them
I am assuming no degraded performance using 24 port for running 16 drives?
at least this way I can have a backup part if a 24 port expander fails and I could jerry-rig my M1015's to run the 16 internal bays again
I am just not sure how the lanes are divided, assuming they get shared as more drives are added?
New HP SAS Expender Card 24-Port SAS PCI-E Expander Board 468405-001 | eBay
IBM 46M0997 ServeRAID Expansion Adapter 16-Port SAS Expander | eBay