EU WANTED: HBA controller with 2 ports

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Replacing a LSI SAS 3108 with a HBA card and looking for tips and suggestions. Transfer rate can be as low as 6GBps since there is SATA drives in my SAS connectors.

I don't know a lot about HBA so open for tips, recommendations and more info.

Intended usage: TrueNAS ZFS Pools. Documentation: What's all the noise about HBA's, and why can't I use a RAID controller?

Cabling and all that to backplane is already sorted, should be plug and play according to this manual from Huawei, for a rackserver RH2238H v3.
 

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nihonjin

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I do have an sr130 in it mode (HBA) if you're interested, it is a 9300 8i huawei mezzanine card for huawei v3 servers

this one:



Since your backplane and cabling uses mini hd SAS connectors, I do recomend you a card that uses them (mostly SAS3, some SAS2 uses them too but is rare)
 
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What can I say? I was struggling to get Huawei Community to point me to one of theses, and I was not able to find them under the mezzanine card listings in spare parts catalogue.. Computing Product Compatibility Checker

Since my SAS3108 also is a mezzanine..

... let the haggle begin... ;)

What numbers are you considering?
 
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Consider it done. Shipping from Spain, right?

I am sending you a PM with my address and lets sort the paperwork...
 
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