SAS 9300-8I(IR)

Repurposed an old X79 PC as a storage & VM server running Arch ( linux ), needed SATA 3. This card worked out of the box, six Seagate Ironwolf drives attached, zfs read speeds fast enough to saturate a 10Gbit connection ( and sufficient to use it as a Steam game library, actually - access times are obviously dire compared to local drives but for games that read most things in one go, it's great ). I can't remember if it was just plug & play or I had to install a driver ( I believe it's included in the kernel ) but whatever it was was not paintful enough to make me remember.* Don't recommend Ironwolf - they're getting increasingly errorprone just as the warranty expires* Don't get cheap SATA breakout cables.* I haven't felt the need to fiddle with firmware so I have no idea how easy it is to find something compatible - there is a driver package somewhat buried on 10Gtek's site but that appears to be it.

Out of the box this worked with Truenas SCALE.The 6 new drives I added came right up, no issue at all.No need to flash or anything. Literally plug and play.Bought this with 2 SFF-8643 to SATA connectors, and plugged those into my WD red pros. The SFF-8643 to SATA plugged right into the two slots available, and that extended me out to 8 total drives.

Works out of the box with Proxmox. All I need. A bit pricy though.

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I should firstly say the card looks new and legit and it was detected no problem. However when I installed TrueNAS and attempted to create a pool of 5 drives it seemed as if two of the drives were faulty. One always blames the drives first because maybe they were damaged in transit. But I was wrong. Through a process of elimination (swapping around cables between drives and ports on the card) I was able to establish conclusively that of the 8 breakout ports the cards supports, 3 are not operating properly. Unfortunately for me, it took a while before I was able to get all the components and build this system so it appears I am just outside the Amazon return/replacement window. While I do currently only need 5 working ports, it makes me uneasy that there may be some other issues and my data is worth more than the card. I'll probably be looking at other options for replacement.Update: Amazon sent me a replacement card that is working without any issues. The supplier was also prepared to do a replacement, which I appreciate. So all good here. :-)

1) Adpater: Nach kurzer Betriebszeit hat der Adapter sein BIOS nicht mehr laden können, hat das auch brav gemeldet:"Unable to load Avago Technologies MPT BIOSMPT BIOS Fault 05h encountered at Adapter"Kaputt ist kaputt.Der zweite Adapter erzeugt zufällige bitfehler die dann so aussehen als wären die angeschlossenen Festplatten defekt; vermeintliche Block-Lesefehler (jedesmal andere Blöcke). Die Festplatten selbst bestehen an anderen Controllern jeden test fehlerfrei.IO-hängt regelmäßig bei konkurrierenden Zugriffen für mehr als 120sec.