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

Artem Bokhan
2011-08-12T09:23:09Z

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.