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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.net>
Subject: Re: Is the LSI SAS9211-8i still the go to HBA?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:59:15 +0500
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 19:29:34 +1100
Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:

> I will not use SSDs with the card, so handling 8 HDDs should not be a
> stretch for either one?

Speaking of SSDs, handling *those* indeed will be a stretch, but for other
reasons. These cards are finicky about enabling TRIM support:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/416886/does-the-mpt2sas-driver-support-trim

I have an LSI 9212-4i and it also does not pass-through TRIM with a few SSDs
that I tried.

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With respect,
Roman