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Single core LSI 9260-8i with 256meg of ram OEM to IBM. The M5014 is a less-ram version of the M5015 but far cheaper since folks pull these and treat them like junk. Raid-6/60 is disabled but you can purchase an encrypted feature key. These cards are quite powerful XOR beasts.
We're talking stupid cheap for a very solid raid controller folks. Oddly faster than my HP P410/512FBWC controller which costs quite a bit more due to the cache board.
1. has no bracket. all megaraid cards use the same bracket. IBM servers mount these without a bracket - so these are pulls.
2. Tested in White box, HP DL360, HP DL380, Dell R410, Dell R610 - windows 2012,2008R2 and ESX 4.0u3, 5.0u1, 5.1 - no drivers necessary but very wise to upgrade the drivers and firmware and install the gui management tool [runs in a vm even].
3. can be cross-flashed if you are crazy to risk destroying the card. Newer firmware has anti-cross-flash technology.
4. no battery (not necessary in all cases). Used batteries have all been fail in my experience. LI-ION (old) and LI-PO(new) are the types. LI-PO is what you want. Expect to pay more than the card for a new one. Restricts airflow without remote mount kit on servers.
5. 256mb of ram instead of 512mb (useless for ssd). LSI 9260-8i comes with 512meg of ram usually. Sometimes 1gb. Soldered. With SSD you bypass the cache using direct i/o mode+write-through+never read ahead so it is rather irrelevant.
6. PCI-E x8 2.0 - can run in a slower slot but you'll choke your max from 3gbps down in half (pci-E 1.0 for example).
7. Raid-0,1,5,10,00,50,100 included. Raid-6/60 disabled.
Always wanted a real raid controller? This is it. Can be upgraded (not cheap) to raid-6 with a feature key or fastpath/cachecade with (stupid expensive) feature key.
Perfect for 4 Samsung 830's [4 in raid-0 or 8 in raid-1 or 10). Limit is only due to PCI-E 2.0 and it's cpu limit in raid-10 or raid-0 or two raid-1. I've got 4 cheap 146gb SAS on one port and 4 samsung 830's on another.
Ebay has them with [used] batteries for about $139 but used old batteries are silly. The used battery ones i've got tend to throw battery health issues even though they were 1.5 years old and had 3 cycles on them.
Will overheat in a standard desktop - requires server grade cooling air! Requires remote mount kit for servers rack-style. Otherwise throw a fan cooler on it or it will be very sad and burn you via the heatsink.
Uses the standard SAS or SAS-> Fanout cable like the LSI controllers. Fan-outs are best but this sucker lights up my HP DL360 drive cages (fail/activity).
I've been running these in production for a few months with both SAS drives and SATA ssd's.
Samsung 830's are solid under ESXi in mirrors. It loves Samsung 830's!
The 9265/9271 LSI cards are faster than these.
LSI 9265 or 9271 without fastpath key is faster than 9260/m5014 with fastpath key.
But for $66 - you could afford TEN of these puppies compared to say one single 9265 or 9271 card.
Search for refurbished feature keys if you want to save a few bucks, but IBM throws all the features on one physical SHA-HMAC boot key including snapshots,full disk encryption so they tend to be a little expensive.
Single core LSI 9260-8i with 256meg of ram OEM to IBM. The M5014 is a less-ram version of the M5015 but far cheaper since folks pull these and treat them like junk. Raid-6/60 is disabled but you can purchase an encrypted feature key. These cards are quite powerful XOR beasts.
We're talking stupid cheap for a very solid raid controller folks. Oddly faster than my HP P410/512FBWC controller which costs quite a bit more due to the cache board.
1. has no bracket. all megaraid cards use the same bracket. IBM servers mount these without a bracket - so these are pulls.
2. Tested in White box, HP DL360, HP DL380, Dell R410, Dell R610 - windows 2012,2008R2 and ESX 4.0u3, 5.0u1, 5.1 - no drivers necessary but very wise to upgrade the drivers and firmware and install the gui management tool [runs in a vm even].
3. can be cross-flashed if you are crazy to risk destroying the card. Newer firmware has anti-cross-flash technology.
4. no battery (not necessary in all cases). Used batteries have all been fail in my experience. LI-ION (old) and LI-PO(new) are the types. LI-PO is what you want. Expect to pay more than the card for a new one. Restricts airflow without remote mount kit on servers.
5. 256mb of ram instead of 512mb (useless for ssd). LSI 9260-8i comes with 512meg of ram usually. Sometimes 1gb. Soldered. With SSD you bypass the cache using direct i/o mode+write-through+never read ahead so it is rather irrelevant.
6. PCI-E x8 2.0 - can run in a slower slot but you'll choke your max from 3gbps down in half (pci-E 1.0 for example).
7. Raid-0,1,5,10,00,50,100 included. Raid-6/60 disabled.
Always wanted a real raid controller? This is it. Can be upgraded (not cheap) to raid-6 with a feature key or fastpath/cachecade with (stupid expensive) feature key.
Perfect for 4 Samsung 830's [4 in raid-0 or 8 in raid-1 or 10). Limit is only due to PCI-E 2.0 and it's cpu limit in raid-10 or raid-0 or two raid-1. I've got 4 cheap 146gb SAS on one port and 4 samsung 830's on another.
Ebay has them with [used] batteries for about $139 but used old batteries are silly. The used battery ones i've got tend to throw battery health issues even though they were 1.5 years old and had 3 cycles on them.
Will overheat in a standard desktop - requires server grade cooling air! Requires remote mount kit for servers rack-style. Otherwise throw a fan cooler on it or it will be very sad and burn you via the heatsink.
Uses the standard SAS or SAS-> Fanout cable like the LSI controllers. Fan-outs are best but this sucker lights up my HP DL360 drive cages (fail/activity).
I've been running these in production for a few months with both SAS drives and SATA ssd's.
Samsung 830's are solid under ESXi in mirrors. It loves Samsung 830's!
The 9265/9271 LSI cards are faster than these.
LSI 9265 or 9271 without fastpath key is faster than 9260/m5014 with fastpath key.
But for $66 - you could afford TEN of these puppies compared to say one single 9265 or 9271 card.
Search for refurbished feature keys if you want to save a few bucks, but IBM throws all the features on one physical SHA-HMAC boot key including snapshots,full disk encryption so they tend to be a little expensive.
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