practical maximum number of drives

[Graham Allan]

Is this difference not just because the 8e has two SAS buses and the 4i 
only one? So they are claiming a consistent 256 devices per bus.
We are using the 9200-8e, and our drives are split across both buses.

Do you have >256 drives on a single HBA yourself?

Graham

On 2/5/2014 3:24 AM, Rich wrote:
> http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9200-8e.aspx
>
> Claims 512.
>
> http://www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9211-4i.aspx
>
> claims 256.
>
> I'm really extraordinarily curious to see what would happen, but do
> not have >512 unused drives I could attach to a single HBA to find
> out...easily.
>
> I have >256, but since all the stuff I can find other than SM's
> documentation claims 512 for the SAS2008, that would only refute their
> statement, not LSI's.