Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:38:31 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 1950 III (PE_SC3): replacement SAS controller to acceess drives >= 3TB Message-ID: <j76ijo$qns$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4E96BA63.3040001@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4E96BA63.3040001@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 13/10/2011 12:16, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I'm a bit afraid of buying something "out of the blue" since the > dimensions of this little controller board seems small. I hope someone > already made a decission to buy such a replacement for their similar or > exact the same system and can help me out. > > We do not need RAID, nor SAS 2.0 capabilities, just JBOD. Thanks a lot > in advance, This is somewhat tangential but if the server has an internal USB port (directly on the motherboard), you *could* use it just for boot+root for the OS and then have buy any kind of controller which supports your drives. Almost all modern servers have this, but the 1950 is a bit old... In the same direction: if you have the space and the cabling, you could just add a single small drive and connect it to the motherboard SATA controller (non-RAID) and boot from that. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6WzbcACgkQldnAQVacBcgEYwCeMvrhgglAbVfiTBNcCmTKUdpQ h1YAoKOxF1TwtP35Al8ljQUoMJRBQwrf =+U34 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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