I just got sick of the Mediasonic boxes randomly dropping drives (USB-C 10Gbit and USB-A 5Gbit) and occasionally corrupting partitions. Lucky I know how to recover partitions... comes in handy from having worked for EMC and NetApp for half my IT career...
I just upgraded this week to Silverstone DS380 8 bay backplane SFF case with 8088 to 8087 PCI bracket and LSI 9201 16E SAS/SATA HBA in my NUC Extreme. Just moved the drives over no problem... quite a bit faster and more reliable already!
The 9200 just barely fit in the NUC but the 9201 had a little room to spare. (shorter card length by 15mm or so)
Need to replace MediaSonic ProBox that died
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I just got sick of the Mediasonic boxes randomly dropping drives (USB-C 10Gbit and USB-A 5Gbit) and occasionally corrupting partitions. Lucky I know how to recover partitions... comes in handy from having worked for EMC and NetApp for half my IT career...
I just upgraded this week to Silverstone DS380 8 bay backplane SFF case with 8088 to 8087 PCI bracket and LSI 9201 16E SAS/SATA HBA in my NUC Extreme. Just moved the drives over no problem... quite a bit faster and more reliable already!
The 9200 just barely fit in the NUC but the 9201 had a little room to spare. (shorter card length by 15mm or so)
2 x dual port 8087 internal to 8088 external PCI adaptors plus
4 x 1M 8088 to 8088 SAS cables. - $191 from Amazon