Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary

[Karl Denninger]

On 8/22/2016 13:38, Mike wrote:
> On 8/22/2016 2:36 PM, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> On 8/22/2016 13:34, Mike wrote:
>>> On 8/22/2016 12:18 PM, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>>>>> On 22 Aug 2016, at 18:14, InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter <juergen.gotteswinter at internetx.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> LSI SAS 2008 Based HBA, there are dozens of OEM available for Budget Prices
>>>> With the IT firmware.
>>> What's the significance of "IT firmware"?
>>>
>>>
>> It's (slightly) faster, provided you don't turn on any of the other
>> stuff (which is always dumb with these adapters.)
> Does it come with the HBA board(s), needs to be purchased or downloaded
> separately?
I've never gotten a card with it on it; I've always had to flash it. 
Flashing these cards is a bit of a highwire act and can brick them, but
I've never had it happen myself.  With that said my real reason to flash
all of mine is to have all of them on the same firmware just so I can
eliminate that as a possible contributor to problems if one starts
acting up and the others are not.  It's more of a "good practice" thing
than a need IMHO; it's not a lot of fun to try to run down a problem
only to find out after much hair has been pulled out of one's own head
that the problem is bad firmware on a board!
> Total noob here who wants to move my ZFS server disks off the
> motherboard SATA ports.  :)
>

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