LSI RAID Controller and HBA Complete Listing Plus OEM Models

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i386

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You have to select "legacy products" in the product group to see drivers/firmware for "older" hbas/raid controller

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You have to select "legacy products" in the product group to see drivers/firmware for "older" hbas/raid controller

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Thanks! I had downloaded it from Wayback but yea I was entering 'legacy' the wrong way I guess. Their site isn't the most intuitive... I've had issues with three of my slots in my SuperMicro SC847 44-bay randomly disconnecting and I was hoping upgrading from firmware 16 to 17 would help. Edit: OK I mis-read their available downloads and see I'm already on the latest firmware... ah that's not great.
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Active cooling like a fan on the controllers heatsink?
No, all the new models rely on high airflow from system fans. I think adaptec series 6 were the last models with an optional official fan kit from the manufacturer.
 

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Is there any RAID5 controller with BBU and PCI-E 3.x (5xSSD@sata) that do not need active cooling?
I don't think those really exist as i386 pointed out, they all rely on chassis airflow. workaround for us in our strange setups is to attack a 40mm fan to it somehow
 

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thanx a lot. I was searching and nothing. Can you recommend anything? I will use it in proxmox@raid5 with 5 SSD disks. Since I will put it on pci-e x4 port PCI-E 3.0 is necessary.
 
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thanx a lot. I was searching and nothing. Can you recommend anything? I will use it in proxmox@raid5 with 5 SSD disks. Since I will put it on pci-e x4 port PCI-E 3.0 is necessary.
If you insist on hardraid, I'd go for somthing based around the SAS2208 or SAS3108 controllers then, though IMO doing som form of softraid is a better option
 

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If you insist on hardraid, I'd go for somthing based around the SAS2208 or SAS3108 controllers then, though IMO doing som form of softraid is a better option
I have now softraid in ZFS and this is best option that I tested and it use too much CPU
 

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Does anyone know whether the power consumption of a HBA is proportional to the number of connected disks?
I am debating whether to get LSI 9300 or 9305 card, the latter of which is easily twice or thrice as expensive, and power consumption would be the only selling point. I have a home server in a desktop case, so there is not really sufficient airflow to cool one of these cards (and I presume there are no aftermarket fan brackets).
 

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Does anyone know whether the power consumption of a HBA is proportional to the number of connected disks?
I am debating whether to get LSI 9300 or 9305 card, the latter of which is easily twice or thrice as expensive, and power consumption would be the only selling point. I have a home server in a desktop case, so there is not really sufficient airflow to cool one of these cards (and I presume there are no aftermarket fan brackets).
I wouldn't worry too much about cooling it when there are pci slot (not a product endorsement, just an example) fans available.

I'd get whatever is most compatible with your host OS & future growth (SSD or NVMe need for speed?)
 

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Well, the board I have (Supermicro X11-SCH-F) only has two PCIe slots, and both are used, so there's no way I could get one of those fans in there. Those also tend to be pretty noisy, whereas the micro Noctua fan I mounted on my current card I could get down to like 1000rpm.
 

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Is the 9440 crossflashable to 9400? If I understand it correctly, the cards should be physically identical, but 9440 is the RAID version and only has different firmware?
 

maxp

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This thread is awesome! Has anyone considered converting it to a google sheet a-la the NewMaxx SSD sheet?
 

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when running the 9400-16i is it hotswap when using the internal cable with nvme?

or is it a case of rebooting the machine to detect the drive?
 

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Great information on this page. I have been using it as a reference guide for a couple of weeks now. I decide to join the forum so I could ask some questions.

I have a home built PC that I dual boot between Ubuntu 23.04 and Windows 11. The MSI Z690 Ace mother board does not have am Ubuntu driver for the built in raid, they only support Windows. I have 3 - 18TB HDD in a raid 5 array (which I will grow as needed) and 3 - 4TB HDD in a different raid 5 array. I also have a couple of other disks that I will not raid. I boot off a M2 device attached to the motherboard that I will not raid. My motherboard supports 6 SATA drives, I have 8 drives in my tower, so I need to added capacity to connect more drives. My application is mainly a home media server with a large amount of data, but is not typically high i/o. I rely on raid 5 for protection from hardware failure. I have concern of rebuild time when there is a HDD failure given the size of the 18TB HDD array.

The system is overly powered CPU/RAM/GPU to allow many years of growth. So, I want to do the same with my storage subsystem. I may have to go to external storage at some point, but I don't expect that for a few years. I only have one PCI slot that is accessible remaining and it is just above the power supply. I have a high air flow cabinet (Corsair 7000D AIRFLOW Full-Tower ATX). I am concerned about the space for an additional 40mm fan to cool the raid controller.

1) Do I have to go to hardware raid in order to access the raid arrays under both operating systems?
2) Do I have to have an additional fan directly below the raid controller? Or will the airflow of the tower be sufficient?
3) If I am planning for years of usage - am I wrong to think that I need a 94xx or 95xx controller for longevity of support? Or could I do something less powerful?
4) Do the newer chips produce less heat in the controller?
5) What causes the controller to produce more heat (amount of I/O, number of devices, other)?
6) If I go with a 16i controller, can I run cables out an empty PCI slot to an external storage device? Or do I have to go with an 8i8e controller?
7) I will expand the 18TB raid 5 over-time, adding additional storage to it as needed.

Maybe I should ask - do you have a recommended controller given my use case? I am OK with spending $$, but want to do so wisely.