Supermicro SAS RAID Controller (AOC-SAS2LP-H8IR) $244.29

[mobilenvidia]

Good price for an equivalent LSI9261-8i controller with all the features.

Supermicro SAS RAID Controller (AOC-SAS2LP-H8IR)

Key Features

LSISAS 2108 8-port PCI-E SAS-2 controller
8-port (8 internal) 6Gb/s per port
Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
On board hardware IO Processor
512MB 800MHz DDR2 on-card cache
Advanced array configuration and management utilities
Automatically negotiates PCI-E link widths
Power management support
Supports 1.5, 3.0 and 6.0 Gb/s SAS and SATA data transfer rates
Port independent auto-negotiation
Supports SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols
Optional Battery Backup Unit for cached data protection (BTR-0018L-0000-LSI) - operating temperature (Ambient) from 10C° - 45C°
OS Support : Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista, RedHat Enterprise and SUSE Linux

I've dealt with Blinq before on Ebay and he ships overseas, can't quite tell with Amazon if shipping is around the globe or US only

 

[Patrick]

Not bad. I will probably pick one up. Maybe will see if I can get a few options from SM. Prob going to stop by there next week for a review I am doing.

 

[mobilenvidia]

Do SM do a CC/Fastpath key ?
Thats the Holy grail of these SAS2108's, can't say I've seen an AOC version in my travels

 

[Patrick]

AOC-SAS2-FSPT-ESW LSI Fastpath
AOC-CHCD-PRO2-KEY Cachecade

I think.

 

[mobilenvidia]

Intereting.
AOC-CHCD-PRO2-KEY is a SW key, the LSI trial key might work too
All you have to do is reset the trial everymonth

Do the SW keys enable everything below it feature wise ?
Ie the CC key enables Fastpath SED etc ?

[UPDATE, looks like seperate keys]

Please advise how to activate below features for AOC-SAS2LP-H8iR.
• MegaRAID CacheCade™
• MegaRAID Fast Path™
• MegaRAID Recovery Software
• LSI SafeStore™ Software Encryption Services

Customer needs to purchase the following extra keys to enable CacheCade and FastPath features.
- AOC-SAS2-FSPT-ESW
- AOC-CHCD-PRO2-KEY
For MegaRAID recovery software and LSI SaftStore Encryption services, please contact LSI and get the software license.

With SW keys makes the card even more attractive

 

[Patrick]

Not sure yet. Amazon only has one left.

 

[mobilenvidia]

It's on ebay too