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From: Artem Bokhan <aptem@ngs.ru>
To: "Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche" <klaus.kusche@computerix.info>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Good SAS adapters for 6 Gb/s SATA SSD's (with TRIM)?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:17:34 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E44EFAE.9010800@ngs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E43F2C3.9000808@computerix.info>

On 11.08.2011 22:18, Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche wrote:
> I'm looking for ways to hook up fast 6 Gb/s SATA SSD's (non-RAID!)
> to (server or i-X58) mainboards which do not have native 6 Gb/s SATA.
>
> From the reviews I've read so far, two things became obvious:
> * The SSD's I'm looking at really want a working SATA TRIM command.
> * All the onboard Marvell 88SE9128 (or ASmedia) solutions
> seriuosly lack performance, as do PCIe cards based on those chips.
>
> So basically, there seem to be two choices:
> 1.) LSI 2008

IT firmware supports TRIM. You may use 
ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/SAS/LSI/2008/ tools to flash IR firmware instead 
of iMR (megaraid), then flash to IT firmware. Then you may flash latest IT 
firmware to ensure that TRIM is supported.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-12  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-11 15:18 Good SAS adapters for 6 Gb/s SATA SSD's (with TRIM)? Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche
2011-08-11 19:59 ` Douglas Gilbert
2011-08-12  3:19   ` Douglas Gilbert
2011-08-12  7:16     ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2011-08-12 13:42       ` Douglas Gilbert
2011-08-14 19:59         ` Stefan Hübner
2011-08-12  8:04     ` Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche
2011-08-12  8:15       ` Ric Wheeler
2011-08-12  8:48         ` Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche
2011-08-12  9:01           ` Ric Wheeler
2011-08-12  9:24             ` Prof. Dr. Klaus Kusche
2011-08-12  9:35               ` Ric Wheeler
2011-08-12 11:14                 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-08-12  9:52               ` Lukas Czerner
2011-08-12 12:32                 ` Mark Lord
2011-08-12  9:17 ` Artem Bokhan [this message]
2011-08-12  9:34   ` Artem Bokhan

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