I have an LSI 9202-16e that I don't really need any more. The card is very hard to price as it is very rare to find on EBay and is OEM only so no retail stockists list it. The card has a low profile bracket and has been used in my C6100. I have cables which I am also happy to sell. SFF-8644 -> SFF-8088 (x4) and SFF-8644 -> SFF-8470 (x2).
DBA did an overview and benchmark here for anyone who missed it but the essence is that it can do up to around 5GB/s and 725k IOPS. It has 4 external ports and so can be connected to 4 separate disk shelves or multiple drives or 16 devices without an expander.
I am also looking for a few items.
1x E5-1620 (or other E5-XXX0 processors but only low level really required) to partner with an Asus Rampage iV Extreme I may be getting.
1x SAS controller with 8 external lanes (dual SFF-8088 connectors) - SATA II or III is fine.
Multiple (upto 4) SAS controllers (pref LSI) which can do SATA III (6gbps) with either 4 or 8 lanes (for SSD drives).
I am happy to do a partial trade-in, full trade-in etc.
I am letting you guys get first crack. It is not advertised anywhere else yet. If no-one here is particularly interested then I will probably throw it up on EBay at some point.
To give some sort of pricing idea, the LSI SAS9206-16e is going for around US$600 and LSI Logic 9201-16e is going for a little under US$500. Neither can match the speed of this controller in a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot like the one in the Dell C6100.
Post here or PM etc.
DBA did an overview and benchmark here for anyone who missed it but the essence is that it can do up to around 5GB/s and 725k IOPS. It has 4 external ports and so can be connected to 4 separate disk shelves or multiple drives or 16 devices without an expander.
I am also looking for a few items.
1x E5-1620 (or other E5-XXX0 processors but only low level really required) to partner with an Asus Rampage iV Extreme I may be getting.
1x SAS controller with 8 external lanes (dual SFF-8088 connectors) - SATA II or III is fine.
Multiple (upto 4) SAS controllers (pref LSI) which can do SATA III (6gbps) with either 4 or 8 lanes (for SSD drives).
I am happy to do a partial trade-in, full trade-in etc.
I am letting you guys get first crack. It is not advertised anywhere else yet. If no-one here is particularly interested then I will probably throw it up on EBay at some point.
To give some sort of pricing idea, the LSI SAS9206-16e is going for around US$600 and LSI Logic 9201-16e is going for a little under US$500. Neither can match the speed of this controller in a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot like the one in the Dell C6100.
Post here or PM etc.