I recently picked up a SE3016 JBOD enclosure to repurpose 15 old hard drives I had laying around. I moved them to my garage and attached them to an HP DL120G7 with a Smart Array P212. The P212 had 1 internal and one external connection.
Right now I have the P212 managing the enclosure as 3 arrays just for fun. At one time I had looked into cross-flashing the P212 but gave up and got several M1015s.
Now I want to move this enclosure (after sound mods) into the house. Inside I have a server with a Supermicro X8DTI-F motherboard, a M1015 and an Intel expander.
What I want to do is replace the M1015 with a comparable HBA with external connectors so I can move the 8 HDDs from inside to outside the case and expand the Storage Spaces array on that server with more disks.
Is the LSI SAS9200-8E a good choice for this?
I had also read someone had success with a Dell card, they didn't specify the name, but I think it was the H800 flashed with 9211-8i IT firmware.
I don't want to go the 8087 > 8088 route, kids, pets, etc will put wear on anything passing through the case, I've had luck with them not messing with actual cables connected to cards though....
Right now I have the P212 managing the enclosure as 3 arrays just for fun. At one time I had looked into cross-flashing the P212 but gave up and got several M1015s.
Now I want to move this enclosure (after sound mods) into the house. Inside I have a server with a Supermicro X8DTI-F motherboard, a M1015 and an Intel expander.
What I want to do is replace the M1015 with a comparable HBA with external connectors so I can move the 8 HDDs from inside to outside the case and expand the Storage Spaces array on that server with more disks.
Is the LSI SAS9200-8E a good choice for this?
I had also read someone had success with a Dell card, they didn't specify the name, but I think it was the H800 flashed with 9211-8i IT firmware.
I don't want to go the 8087 > 8088 route, kids, pets, etc will put wear on anything passing through the case, I've had luck with them not messing with actual cables connected to cards though....