SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0
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Last updated on August 17, 2024 4:54 am
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Specification: SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0
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5 reviews for SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0
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George –
Been running in a Norco 24-drive case (with 20 drives active) for about two years under Linux with an Intel SAS Port Expander and has been solid.
J. Normand –
I’ve had this for about 4 years now. Rock solid as a freeNAS controller for 8 Western Digital 2TB Reds. The only reason it didn’t get 5 stars, and I considered giving it 3 stars is LSI went to Broadcom, Broadcom went to Avago. The result is finding the latest firmware package 9211-8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip is bordering on impossible. I looked around for the file name and was able to search on their site with the above finding
docs.broadcom.com/docs/9211_8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_FW_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows.zip
There is no landing page as far as I can tell. And this will most likely be the last update. But if you want the latest driver from 2016. There you go.
Again the controller has been flawless the last few years. It just been handed around a bit too much.
MF –
Great for adding a number of single (JBOD) SSD drives
I installed this on an ASUS TUF H370-Pro Gaming MOBO. I had quite a search to find the correct sequence to make the flash to IT with a more recent version of firmware. Apparenly a DOS boot would not work with certain Intel configurations. The various directions that were offered as standard did not work. However, the freenas forums gave me everything I needed. Sorry, but the directions require URL’s and Amazon won’t allow that.
Performance is virtually the same as my MOBO SATA III ports for the same drives. And, I can now extend my system by 8 drives.
They key that worked for me over all other things however was setting up the USB stick with two directories on a freshly formatted FAT32 file system, 32MB size partition, /boot/efi and /efi/boot with both Bootx64.efi and Shellx64.efi name forms of the Shell_Full.efi file I downloaded. (Rename Shell_Full.efi to both of these and copy to both sub directories). Proceed with the rest of the directions.
Search the FreeNas forums for: “
How-to: Flash LSI 9211-8i using EFI shell” by boris_d, you will find his post a little ways down the search screen. Date Feb 26, 2017.
Emilie –
It works great as an HBA in my server build.
Jan Stuck –
Love it so far. I had 2 IBM ServeRAID BR10i/LSI SAS3082E-R cards in my Linux server and after flashing the 9211 to IT mode, all my drives and software raids automatically showed up correctly and everything is back to normal (except that I can now use more than 2TB drives). I hope these cards will last me as long as my IBM ServeRAID BR10i/LSI SAS3082E-R cards have.
Here is a link on how to flash this card to IT mode (which let’s you connect drives in JBOD mode. That way you can use software raid and MOST IMPORTANTLY you can now access SMART data from your drives, which is obviously VITAL for monitoring drive health.):
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BTW, the card came with BOTH full height and low-profile brackets.