ah man that sux but thanks for the offer still Patrick, hopefully someone else with the same card will chime in and give their input as well.
I glued three of these to the wall adjacent to the lowermost PCI slot and bolted the expander to them. These gave me a bigger surface to glue over regular standoffs.Has anyone mounted one of the Intel cards via standoffs in a Norco 4224 rather than using an expansion slot? Is there a good spot for it?
It does the job, and in RAID6 the performance is good. When you factor in that I got it for less than half the price of a LSI + hardware key + battery I think is good value for money.Nice pic and guide! How do you like the 6805? When I started getting into storage I actually attached my BBU's in a similar way, but I used Velcro.
Surprisingly able. It was originally a HTPC, but as this was an experiment I tried to keep the expenditure to a minimum, so I recycled it into the WHS2011 box. It runs Starwind iSCSI SAN fine, streams movies fine, takes care of the backups with no hassle, runs squeezebox server, iTunes server, usual stuff... I did add a decent dual NIC (Intel i350-T2) though, the integrated Realtek NIC you find in "budget" boards is... hmmmm... less than ableHow are you liking the A75 platform?
MrT0ad, what model Thumb Nut (ex. 816-204 or 816-206 or 816-208, etc...) did you purchase to match the size/screw hole of the card?I got a very good deal on an Adaptec 6805 + ZMM but when it came to finding an expander for it there was not a lot of compatibility info out there (or at least I failed to find it).
Reports were sketchy, and most of them about issues rather than success stories.
So for the record I'm running an Adaptec 6805 with this expander and so far so good. All 20 drives (ST3000DM001 firmware CC4H) are detected as SATA III and mounted, array (RAID 6) built without issues, has been problem free for about a month now.
As you can guess from my choice of drives is not a high-availability SAN so I don't know how this combination would behave on a production environment, but again for a production environment I'd probably have gone for an LSI card anyway, so this is purely academic.
I glued three of these to the wall adjacent to the lowermost PCI slot and bolted the expander to them. These gave me a bigger surface to glue over regular standoffs.
SAS2008's links are 6.0 G, 6.0 G, 6.0 G, 6.0 G, 6.0 G, 6.0 G, 6.0 G, 6.0 G
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500605b00140eb20 0002 SAS Initiator
500605b00140eb20 0003 SAS Initiator
500605b00140eb20 0004 SAS Initiator
500605b00140eb20 0005 SAS Initiator
500605b00140eb20 0006 SAS Initiator
500605b00140eb20 0007 SAS Initiator
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1 0001 --> 22 0009 0 6.0
2 0001 --> 21 0009 0 6.0
3 0001 --> 20 0009 0 6.0
4 0001 --> 19 0009 0 6.0
5 0001 --> 18 0009 0 6.0
6 0001 --> 17 0009 0 6.0
7 0001 --> 16 0009 0 6.0
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23 0009 --> 0 0001 0 6.0
24 0009 --> 0 0019 0 6.0
Enclosure Handle Slots SASAddress B___T (SEP)
0001 8 500605b00140eb20
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