Re: Good SAS adapters for 6 Gb/s SATA SSD's (with TRIM)?

Artem Bokhan
2011-08-12T09:34:40Z

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On 12.08.2011 16:17, Artem Bokhan wrote:
> 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.
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