Buy LSI Logic LSI00137 MegaRAID SAS 84016E SGL 16PT 3GB S PCIE 256MB Controller CardLSI Logic LSI00137 MegaRAID SAS 84016E SGL 16PT 3GB S PCIE 256MB Controller Card Product Description:
- Environment: Internal sub-systems with up to 122 SAS or SATA II drives
- Physical Dimensions: Full-height, half-length 6.6X 4.2
- Connectors: Four SAS SFF8087 x4 internal connectors
- Host Bus Type: x8 lane PCI Express 1.0a compliant PCI Power Management Specification 1.1 compliant
- Device Support: Up to 122 devices supported
Product Description
Sixteen-port SAS solution for servers and storage appliances requiring high disk count direct attach storage. Also ideal forvertical applications that require the highest levels of sustained write and read performance including web servers, cluster servers, supercomputing, near-line backup and archival, security systems, pro audio and video applications, and other demanding storage applications that need high-bandwidth, high-capacity sequential performance.
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Rock solid 16 drive hardware RAID
By Galen
I bought this card as an upgrade to my Areca 1220 hardware RAID 5 controller because it has 4 SAS ports which I can use to directly connect up to 16 drives with. Right now I have 15 drives connected: a 4 drive RAID5 for the OS (Ubuntu 64bit) and a 10 drive RAID5 for data with 1 hotspare. So far it has been rock solid and I get good RAID performance. I haven't benchmarked yet but I can pull at about 200Mb/s across the network so transfers usually bottleneck on the destination drive, not on the RAID. RAID 6 is offered as an option and I when I get around to benchmarking them both I may decide to go that route if the performance is good. Right now I have 2 drive redundancy with the hotspare and that is sufficient for my home media server.The major downside to this card is that there is no Debian installer for their card management software. They have an RPM package which I converted to a .deb with alien but it's been a hassle getting it running. So their linux support is limited to Redhat and distro that use RPM. Hopefully they will fix this soon.I didn't want to use expander boards to connect additional drives so I went looking for a SAS card with 4 ports and LSI delivered. For the price this is probably the best value for the capacity.
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