LSI MegaRAID SAS 9211-8i

BlizzardX · 9 Aug 2014 at 23:22

Hi,

I've got an LSI 9211-8i flashed to IT mode for my media storage (running parity protected JBOD). I've been investigating why my power usage is higher than expected and it appears that the server doesn't or can't power down the hdds even though its set to. Does anybody know if this card can pass idle commands to the connected HDDS in windows server?

Frozennova · 10 Aug 2014 at 00:25

Is it similar to a Dell sas6/ir have one flashed to the LSI IT firmware and that spins drives down no problems.

BlizzardX · 10 Aug 2014 at 00:43

The 9211-8i uses the SAS2 Falcon 2008 chipset from LSI. I'm not sure what the Dell uses. Reports suggest that perhaps it doesn't support idle spin down but I can't find for certain and its bugging me!

Frozennova · 10 Aug 2014 at 10:04

My Dell card is a 1068e so different chipset.

bit of searching and I have some answers. LSI cards wont spin drives down itself with IT firmware.

can you test with a Linux install as it's possible to use hdparm to spin drives down which is what I've been using