New LSI 9400 Series NVMe HBA

HI

I see that Broadcom have new 9400 series NVMe HBA's

SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapters

Alan

 

I just ordered one from Newegg.
Should be here by the 19th.
LSI SAS 9400-16i x8 lane PCI Express 3.1 SAS Tri-Mode Storage Adapter - Newegg.com

 

Any early thoughts on how well it works?

 

DOA, RMA'd waiting on a replacement.

 

Ugh...sorry to hear that. Surprised I haven't seen any reviews on this part yet.

 

An nvme hba on 8x lane? Sounds a bit short on bandwidth.

 

There is a 16x lane version but it is for external storage.

Would like to see a review of these and the RAID version the . MegaRAID 9460-16i

 

The 16e version here is x8 too? Is there another
HBA 9400-16e Tri-Mode Storage Adapter

 

x16 PCI 3.1 . External ports
HBA 9405W-16e Tri-Mode Storage Adapter

 

Finally received a working card-
So far I have only checked it with sata drives on my sas backplane, all the drives that where running on a lsi 9305 are working great on the 9400.
I have an issue with the nvme though, I have not tested it yet- my issue is accordind to the user guide

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Many Grantley and Purley generation backplanes that support NVMe use white Mini SAS HD connectors to indicate
which connectors are for NVMe and which are for SAS/SATA. The backplanes have the protocol screen printed on the
backplane near the connectors.

The pinout in this table is not the pinout used on the Broadcom Tri-Mode adapter. For Tri-Mode versatility (support for SAS and NVMe),
the adapters follow the SFF-9402 pinout.
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My nvme backplane is an a2u44x25nvmedk2 and my cables have the white connectors, does anyone know if there is a cable that will work?

 

Hi,

Looking at this same card. It's a bit pricey so looking for any feedback on how it performed over time and I'd you happy with it?

 

Is the idea here to have NVMe-based CacheCade in front of slower bulk-storage drives?

 

Anyone with LUCK using NVME on LSI-9400 8i with MINI-SAS HD (SFF-8643) to four SF-8639 - U2?

 

Anyone tried the NVMe on this controller card yet?

 

Bump, am also curious about this..

 

I had test intel 750 1.2t and p3700 400g with the cable followed sff8643,It is conn't found driver..

Finally I found the cable (PN:05-50065-00)at lsi website and I had make an order at Span.com.

When I receive the cable,I will test and let you konw.

 

Also interested.... funny I almost grabbed it couple weeks ago.

 

I had receive the cable（PN：05-50065-00），It can found nvme card（P3605 1.6t，P3700 400g）..

So,for the moment,It must use Lsi cable to use nvme driver.

 

Hi, what cable did you use that didn't work? Thanks.

 

any info on this? Ive *been* looking to do raid1 with 2x u.2 nvme (to vmware/esxi), as it appears this does have vmware drivers).

as far as i can tell, in seems this is the only way to get raid1 nvme on a vmware host (direct, local storage- not via a nas/san).

So far it seems (from replies in this thread):
you need to use a special LSI cable (expensive! 75-100$ each it looks like) to connect to any nvme via u.2
here is pict of the cable:
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I wonder if i could use the white tipped supermicro sff-8643 cables that go from my SM 4 port nvme card to my supermicro nvme backplane (its 12x sas3 backplane, 4x of which are nvme). EDIT; looks like NO YOU CANT USE the white tipped SM 8643 cable , i cant link to the PDF right now, but in an LSI PDF on this card, they say you cant, and risk damaging the nvme and/or the lsi card. (so you do have to use their expensive cable for nvme, ie ~$100 which connects to 2x nvme)

anyone have any info?
tks