I have purchased from eBay and LSI 9361-8i, I know it has 1 Gig of 1866Mhz ram and from memory a 1.4 GHz on board CPU to offload from the CPU on my mainboard but here is where things get confusing and why I need to ask some questions.
I want to be able to enable writeback caching, if memory serves correctly this used to be achieved by using a BBU but on this current unit I keep coming across information about a NAND add on board that everything gets written to first something called cachecade which enables SSDs to act as cache in front of spinners and it's all become a bit beyond me.
Do I simply use a BBU to enable writeback caching or do I need this NAND memory thingy with a BBU for that to work - can someone help me out with this?
While I am aware that this is a RAID controller is there firmware available for it that allows it to run as just a host controller controlling completely separate drives I.E non raid?
Cheers in advance for any responses, I am hoping to get some answers before I set this up on my new mobo which should arrive in the next couple of days - an ASUS Extreme V edition 10.
I want to be able to enable writeback caching, if memory serves correctly this used to be achieved by using a BBU but on this current unit I keep coming across information about a NAND add on board that everything gets written to first something called cachecade which enables SSDs to act as cache in front of spinners and it's all become a bit beyond me.
Do I simply use a BBU to enable writeback caching or do I need this NAND memory thingy with a BBU for that to work - can someone help me out with this?
While I am aware that this is a RAID controller is there firmware available for it that allows it to run as just a host controller controlling completely separate drives I.E non raid?
Cheers in advance for any responses, I am hoping to get some answers before I set this up on my new mobo which should arrive in the next couple of days - an ASUS Extreme V edition 10.