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My friend and I each got a card for $120 best offer. I am waiting for cables but the card looks fine to me.

Its an older HBA with 2 chips + pcie switch built in so it draws 27 watts instead of the newer ones at 13.

This card should do 4k sectors.

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vvu said:
My friend and I each got a card for $120 best offer. I am waiting for cables but the card looks fine to me.

Its an older HBA with 2 chips + pcie switch built in so it draws 27 watts instead of the newer ones at 13.

This card should do 4k sectors.

www.ebay.com

LSI 9300-16i 16-port SAS9300-16I 12GB/s Host Bus Adapter 03-25600-01B | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for LSI 9300-16i 16-port SAS9300-16I 12GB/s Host Bus Adapter 03-25600-01B at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
www.ebay.com

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Could you elaborate what you mean by "this card should do 4k sectors"?

All 9200 series cards are 4k compatible, as far as I'm aware. The only difference is that some are unable to boot off of 4k sector drives, which is generally irrelevant for most people.
 
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I was warned by bitdeals when looking at some larger drives.

4Kn LSI Compatibility List

We’ve seen a high amount of users wary of purchasing 4Kn drives due to fears of compatibility woes so we put together a list of SAS Controllers with 4Kn support to help aid with choosing drives. Please note this does not cover OS Compatibility, and while most Linux Distributions as well as...
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Could you elaborate what you mean by "this card should do 4k sectors"?

All 9200 series cards are 4k compatible, as far as I'm aware. The only difference is that some are unable to boot off of 4k sector drives, which is generally irrelevant for most people.
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vvu said:
I was warned by bitdeals when looking at some larger drives.

4Kn LSI Compatibility List

We’ve seen a high amount of users wary of purchasing 4Kn drives due to fears of compatibility woes so we put together a list of SAS Controllers with 4Kn support to help aid with choosing drives. Please note this does not cover OS Compatibility, and while most Linux Distributions as well as...
bitdeals.tech
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That list really only has to do with what I said above - booting off of those drives. If you're not booting off of them, then you don't need to worry about it at all.

Aside from that, you don't really need a 12Gbps SAS card for 3.5" SAS drives, even if their interface is 12Gbps. They won't even touch 6Gbps speeds if you're using them direct attached. Maybe it's a little different story if you're using them in an expander backplane.
 
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Damn... i already bought it... at least ill be able to get rid of the sas expander + controller in favor of a single card.[

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That list really only has to do with what I said above - booting off of those drives. If you're not booting off of them, then you don't need to worry about it at all.

Aside from that, you don't really need a 12Gbps SAS card for 3.5" SAS drives, even if their interface is 12Gbps. They won't even touch 6Gbps speeds if you're using them direct attached. Maybe it's a little different story if you're using them in an expander backplane.
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whats the risk of counterfeit on this?
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imo, not exactly low because the cards look new and are in protective cases like how you would get a fake pallet from the slow boat. But at the same time, these are not being sold as new, are being sold as used so they could be a really good recycler that packages things nicely (a good thing). They're not in a major port city so I don't think this is the usual 'pallet of fakes' that companies buy to make a quick buck, but could be wrong due to the aforementioned looking new and protective cases.
 
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im only using it for a single data TX, so not much risk. Just picked up 16x 8tb SAS3 drives for 5.33 a TB and am moving the data off an old RAID6 array over to the new drives.
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Definitely compare your data after the copy in case the card is sending errors on the wire.
 
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oh yeah, im gonna do a good 10-20TB of sync first to validate the card (and the drives)
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I would just let it keep copying and run a compare to validate 10-20TB of the copy while it's still going. Then let the copy go full speed until done and then do a full bit-by-bit compare. At least that's what I do when I'm moving data. I use windiff and winmerge for comparisons.
 
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Samir said:
I would just let it keep copying and run a compare to validate 10-20TB of the copy while it's still going. Then let the copy go full speed until done and then do a full bit-by-bit compare. At least that's what I do when I'm moving data. I use windiff and winmerge for comparisons.
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unraid's pre-clear plugin does checks automatically. Gonna start running it tonight
 
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