Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives

Reply: Larry Rosenman : "Re: SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives"
In reply to: Larry Rosenman : "SAS/SATA controllers: 8 port that support 8TB Drives"
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From: Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:08:30 UTC

On 17.06.2022 11:59, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> I'm looking to upgrade the controllers in my TrueNAS box to something 
> that will
> support 8TB drives because apparently my LSI 2108 controllers do not 
> support 8TB drives.
> 
> What's the communities recommendation?
> needs to support SFF connectors for a total of 4 SFF connectors, as I 
> have 16 slots.

We at iX are still using LSI/Broadcom HBAs, just moved from long 
discontinued mps(4) to newer mpr(4).  And I don't believe the problem is 
directly related to capacity.  According to my observations it may be 
Seagate HDDs of/above certain (8TB) generation.  We do not use Seagate 
HDDs in our products, so about that instability I only heard from forums 
and TrueNAS community user reports.

-- 
Alexander Motin