From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Thomas Fjellstrom <thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
Cc: Andriano <chief000@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID6 issues
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:47:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E828AAF.3030909@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109271504.02642.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
On 9/27/2011 4:04 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>> Stan Hoeppner<stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> The 9210-8i is a newer generation card using the SAS2008 chip. IOPS
>> potential is over double that of the 1068E cards, 320M vs 140M, and
>> you'll have support for drives larger than 2TB. It also supports SATA3
>> link speed whereas the 1068E chips only support SATA2. It has a PCIe x8
>> 2.0 interface for 8GB/s b/w, whereas the 1068E has a PCIe x8 1.0
>> interface for only 4GB/s.
>>
>> In short, it's has quite a bit more capability than the 1068E based cards.
>
>
> Yeah, i was impressed by the claimed specs. I bet if i knew how much it sells
> for, i'd be shocked. I did a little searching but didn't have much luck.
That's because the 9210* is...
"*Only available to OEMs through LSI direct sales."
IBM sells the 9210-8i as the ServeRAID M1015, available at Newegg for
$320 (way over priced as with all things Big Blue). IBM adds optional
RAID5/50 fakeraid to the BIOS with an additional license key payment.
The retail version of the 9210-8i is the LSI 9240-8i, available at
Newegg for $265.
However, the specs on the 9211-8i are the same, and the connector layout
is better--front vs top. I recommend it over of the 9240-8i. And it's
a little cheaper to boot, $240 vs $265, at Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118112
9211-8i full specs:
http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS9211-8i.aspx
Unless you need to use drives larger than 2TB the $155 Intel 1068E card
is a far better buy at almost $100 less. If you need to connect more
than 8 drives, get a 9211-4i and one of these Intel expanders for 20
drive ports:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117207
This combo with run you ~$450, or $22.50/port for 20 ports. The 9211-8i
runs $30/port for 8 ports.
> p.s. Sory for the duplicate Stan, I couldn't figure out how to disable html on
> my android mail client, and linux-raid bounced it.
No need to apologize. Sh*t happens.
--
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-28 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-13 6:14 RAID6 issues Andriano
2011-09-13 6:25 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-13 6:33 ` Andriano
2011-09-13 6:44 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-13 7:05 ` Andriano
2011-09-13 7:38 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-13 7:51 ` Andriano
2011-09-13 8:10 ` NeilBrown
2011-09-13 8:12 ` Alexander Kühn
2011-09-13 8:44 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-09-13 8:57 ` Andriano
2011-09-13 9:05 ` Andriano
2011-09-13 10:29 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-09-13 10:44 ` Andriano
2011-09-13 13:45 ` Andriano
2011-09-27 18:46 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-27 19:14 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-09-27 21:04 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-28 2:47 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-09-28 6:52 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2011-09-28 6:03 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-09-28 6:53 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-13 14:24 NeilBrown
2011-06-16 20:28 raid6 issues Chad Walker
2011-06-18 19:48 ` Chad Walker
2011-06-18 19:55 ` Chad Walker
2011-06-18 23:01 ` NeilBrown
2011-06-18 23:14 ` Chad Walker
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