On eBay they all seems to be coming from China at about 30$ with cables (although they are the 8087 and not 8086), could they be clone?
In Europe (where I live) they costs about 60€.
Does it works with SATA drives and, most important: can it provides the single drives to the OS without RAID (since I would want to use a software RADI like RIADz)?
Yeah, so the IT mode flash makes it just a JBOD controller, which is what truenas wants. It works with SAS and SATA. You’d need SFF-8086 to SATA cables. (One cable per 4 drives)
thejevans@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
The LSI 9210 8i - IT mode is a great option and can be had for under $50.
peregus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
On eBay they all seems to be coming from China at about 30$ with cables (although they are the 8087 and not 8086), could they be clone? In Europe (where I live) they costs about 60€.
peregus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does it works with SATA drives and, most important: can it provides the single drives to the OS without RAID (since I would want to use a software RADI like RIADz)?
thejevans@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Yeah, so the IT mode flash makes it just a JBOD controller, which is what truenas wants. It works with SAS and SATA. You’d need SFF-8086 to SATA cables. (One cable per 4 drives)
peregus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Interesting, I’ll have a look on how to flash the IT mode. Thanks!