I am wanting to provide hot swap capability and get my storage devices off of my current motherboard storage controller. I have done some searching and ran across a few controllers but having little experience with these cards I thought I could learn from other peoples experiences. The 2 cards I have in my shopping cart are the SAS9211-8I and the LSI Logic SAS 9207-8i at roughly the same price, I do not mind spending more if need be and having raid in the future may be a good option, but at this time I do not have plans for a raid array. I have seen where some of these cards are being flashed with firmware but I am not clear on what the advantage(s) is/are or whether that would apply to my intended usage.
2X Seagate 2 TB Barracudas (Old system being phased out)
2X WD Black 2 TB (Old system being phased out)
Future Plans of 4X Seagate 8 TB Barracudas or other and two 500 GB SSD's to replace the 2 cache drives (1 which belongs in my main system). My intended use is document mirroring (for redundancy), Video, general storage as well as a large collection of photographs, CAD data, system backups and movies.
If I have folder duplication set to 3, would 3 cache drives be required for on the fly duplication? Between the motherboards storage controller and the SAS controller which would allow the SSD's to perform more efficiently? I would really appreciate your input, thank you!
Regards,
Tom
Pardon, I meant to post this in the Hardware section!
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TAdams
Hello,
I am wanting to provide hot swap capability and get my storage devices off of my current motherboard storage controller. I have done some searching and ran across a few controllers but having little experience with these cards I thought I could learn from other peoples experiences. The 2 cards I have in my shopping cart are the SAS9211-8I and the LSI Logic SAS 9207-8i at roughly the same price, I do not mind spending more if need be and having raid in the future may be a good option, but at this time I do not have plans for a raid array. I have seen where some of these cards are being flashed with firmware but I am not clear on what the advantage(s) is/are or whether that would apply to my intended usage.
My current system is as follows:
Future Plans of 4X Seagate 8 TB Barracudas or other and two 500 GB SSD's to replace the 2 cache drives (1 which belongs in my main system). My intended use is document mirroring (for redundancy), Video, general storage as well as a large collection of photographs, CAD data, system backups and movies.
If I have folder duplication set to 3, would 3 cache drives be required for on the fly duplication? Between the motherboards storage controller and the SAS controller which would allow the SSD's to perform more efficiently? I would really appreciate your input, thank you!
Regards,
Tom
Pardon, I meant to post this in the Hardware section!
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