Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary

[Linda Kateley]

Not just IT firmware, but you need to make sure the driver and firmware 
match.

I try to use 16 if possible, 20 works but I have only found the 
20.00.04.00 version of firmware to be reliable. Would love to hear if 
people have different experience. I am about to try the rocket raid in 
IT mode because I am tired of fighting with lsi firmware. Very very 
stable when you get the right combo, 1000's of phantom checksum errors 
if not.

I am starting to like 12g 3008 cards better as the firmware seems to be 
a little more stable at version 9. Been testing 12 and so far so good, 
but haven't run my larger stress tests yet..

I would definitely go to the avago site and make sure there is driver 
and firmware for the card you are purchasing before you buy.

Linda

On 8/22/16 11:18 AM, 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.
>
>> Am 22.08.2016 um 18:08 schrieb Dmitry Morozovsky:
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>>
>>> what is the list of preferred disk controllers to build storage server, say
>>> 12-24 amd more 3.5" disks?  Not too much IOPS are expected, and some could be
>>> mitigated with L2ARC with only metadata cached, I suppose.
>>>
>>> Two usage schemes are file server for big files (mostly cold storage) and
>>> backup/surveillance server (constant stream writes, occasional random reads)
>>>
>>> Any hints? Thanks!
>>>
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