Recommended HBA for ZFS, contemporary

[Ben RUBSON]

What would you recommend for those who want a 12Gb/s SAS HBA ?
LSI 3008 ?
As reliable as LSI 2008 ?

Thank you !

Ben



> 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!