Intel C602 SAS - anyone using it?

[Jeggs101]

I know it sucks for SSDs since its 3gbps but is anyone using it for rotating drives? Is it well supported? Can you do ESXi with it?

 

[Lost-Benji]

Are you certain you are asking about the C602 or a C604/C606. The C602 is SATA only and entry level.
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[BlueFox]

C602 boards commonly have 8087 ports, but they're connected to the SCU and aren't SAS. Pretty prevalent on Supermicro ones for example.

 

[kroem]

I'd be interested how the normal sata raid C602 works in ESXi.

 

[Lost-Benji]

The Intel RAID (ICHR) has always been a solid performer however, this is coming from Windows based machines (I don't use or have time to support all the mixtures of non-MS and the fools who keep mixing them more).
I have feeling of Dead thread coming, OP hasn't returned. Also noted that he/she isn't aware that there should be a pair of SATA-III ports, even if he/she does have C602.