Need new HBA Card

hellarda · 17 May 2018 at 12:45

Afternoon,

I'm after a new 8 port HBA for my home server (running UnRaid)- have 16 drives, currently 8 are running off the integrated broadcom 3008 controller (this is the motherboard http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10srh-cln4f.cfm) and the other 8 are presented to UnRaid as 8x raid0 arrays via a perc 6/i (not ideal I know but its worked fine up till now) unfortunately the perc seems to be dying, and as such I'm looking to buy a new 8 port HBA that can do JBOD on the last 8 disks.

Does anyone have any recommendation? I am seeing some cheap 2nd had HP ones around, but not sure if it's worth going for those or not...

Cheers

bremen1874 · 17 May 2018 at 12:50

I'm running a Dell H310 flashed to IT mode so that unRAID sees the individual drives.

Have a look at their hardware compatibility list http://lime-technology.com/wiki/Hardware_Compatibility#PCI_SATA_Controllers

BongoHunter · 17 May 2018 at 22:37

Whats your budget? If you want new then something like Broadcom 9207-8i is about £230 new (LSI branded version also available) has 2 Mini-SAS SFF8087 connectors so can do 8 SATA easy (Specs: https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12352054) - proabbly overkill for your use case.

Personally I'd go for a used LSI 3008 based card from a server and then flash, good guide here: https://www.servethehome.com/flash-lsi-sas-3008-hba-e-g-ibm-m1215-mode/

mikedigitales · 18 May 2018 at 13:48

Another vote for the cheapy Dell H310 (or H200) crossflashed to IT mode - only likely to cost you £25-£30 plus a couple of SAS cables.

Avalon · 18 May 2018 at 19:55

30 secconds on the unraid forums or wiki would point you to the H310, the H200 is equally good, but the port position isn’t ideal for some cases. The m1215 has half the cache of the equivalent Dell/LSI cards from memory.