I had an LSI 9200-i8 in IT MODE that just blew on me. I need to replace it but can’t find one available at a decent price anywhere. Any other recommendations? I’m running a X570D4U-2L2T so it can be a PCIE 3.0 even.
Anyways let me know if you guys have anything to recommend and also would appreciate if you could include a link to a FLASHING procedure to turn it into IT MODE unless that is already done.
Yes something like that. Except, they are seller refurbished and that makes me worry a bit. Also, do you have any idea if these run hot and if a 40 mm blowing air on the heatsink will be enough?
I like the 9400 8i or 16i since you get pcie support on them
(not sure what you consider decent price, but getting a card that can do nvme later is nice imo)
Thanks for the recommendation. It is a bit out of the price range I am willing to pay but I am also curious… Does it run very hot? Too hot for a 2U case?
Id have to look, I dont really ever hit my storage all that hard and my 4u case has good airflow. Im at work right now but if i remember when I get home ill look.
I’m thinking of switching to a 4U case eventually for my application server but will keep keep the 2U for network related stuff like OPNSense so nothing very hot would run in there.
Those run extremely hot, you must have a good strong fan on them, a dinky 40mm noctua isn’t going to cut it. You need something like this though I don’t have a specific recommendation.
I have a broadcom 9405w-16i, and I can say that raid/HBA hardware is made by malicious fuckwits. It works, but there’s not even a cli accessible temperature sensor. All it has is an led that lights up while it’s baking itself to death, and I’m not even sure if it’s visible from the back outside the case. These tri-mode cards also likely require proprietary (meaning unnecessarily expensive) cables and adapters to work with nvme.
I may get my head ripped off for asking this but… I have to… I know LSI cards are popular for servers with multiple disks… But for home use, would a PCI-E SATA card but good enough? Just want to have your thoughts on this, especially if you tried it before.
I mean it would be fine you just cant do disk shelves with pcie sata card.
You can also get an External card and just loop it back in with an adapter
Some shit like this i have used and works fine
(or just run the cable through the pcie slot to save money
I am considering using the motherboard’s SATA ports temporarily… But the thing is I am not even sure if PROXMOX will recognize the disk since before they were connected through my LSI 9200-8I ?..
I may have to bite the bullet and buy a used Dell H200…
Use those first for sure if you dont have a jbod or something you are connecting to. What file system are you using?
Onboard is fine especially for home use. You dont have a cheap board either, I am running the same one(but x470 version) using both onboard and an 9400