Card recommendation to attach more 6tb drives to desktop.

[Jerry Woo CW]

Hi!

I'm new to looking into hba/raid cards to expand my storage space in my desktop, can anyone recommend which card based off of which chipset should i buy just to add more drives to my desktop? I'll be using a couple of 4, 5 and 6tbs for this card. I just need my windows 10 to be able to access these drives and also get their smart info. No fancy raid needed, just need to get those individual drives recognised.

I bought a 1068e-r without knowing it cannot support drives more than 2tb, so bummer.

Thank you!

 

[Jerry Woo CW]

^ sata drives btw.

 

[Marsh]

$23 card
Dell HV52W PERC H310 PCI Express x8 SAS 2/SATA III Desktop RAID Card 818212507466 | eBay

or other equivalent card

 

[Jerry Woo CW]

$23 card
Dell HV52W PERC H310 PCI Express x8 SAS 2/SATA III Desktop RAID Card 818212507466 | eBay

or other equivalent card

Is m1015 the same chipset? I'm hesitant as i'm not sure if i read some where that it needs a firmware update or something to be able to read more than 2tb issit?

 

[Marsh]

H310 is newer than M1015, I forgot exactly which chip-set it uses.

I owned at least 8 x H310 ( because it is cheap , cost less than $20 each ) ,
it worked fine with 8TB, 6Tb , 4TB , 3TB SAS and Sata drives.

 

[Jerry Woo CW]

H310 is newer than M1015, I forgot exactly which chip-set it uses.

I owned at least 8 x H310 ( because it is cheap , cost less than $20 each ) ,
it worked fine with 8TB, 6Tb , 4TB , 3TB SAS and Sata drives.

I read online that they are both the same chip?

 

[Spartacus]

They are the same lsi chip one is made for Dell one for IBM, and one has horizontal ports the other has vertical.

Depending on your board the H310 may require a covering of one of the pcie pins too.

The IBM version released first and some have older fw that were not validated for over 2 TB drives, but can be resolved with a fw flash.

The H310 was also used in workstations and seems more widely available.

 

[Jerry Woo CW]

They are the same lsi chip one is made for Dell one for IBM, and one has horizontal ports the other has vertical.

Depending on your board the H310 may require a covering of one of the pcie pins too.

The IBM version released first and some have older fw that were not validated for over 2 TB drives, but can be resolved with a fw flash.

The H310 was also used in workstations and seems more widely available.

I've a m1015 coming my way now, would you be able to link me to the correct firmware and flash tool?

 

[Spartacus]

Theres many of them heres one on sth: https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/

tbf that one is also pretty old someone else might have a more recent one