nitrobass24
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Areca>Adaptec
Get an Areca 1680LP
Get an Areca 1680LP
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Areca>Adaptec
Get an Areca 1680LP
But be careful with Areca if you are using Supermicro SAS Expander backplanes. There have been some reports of erratic behavior. If you got the Supermicro -A chassis with multi-lane connectors but no expander, you could use an Areca 1680X with two HP SAS Expander cards (you'd need to get one of Supermicro's L-shaped motherboards and a riser card to fit those into an SC847A-R1400UB)
Or you could choose a controller from the Supermicro SAS Expander compatibility list if you do want to use the Supermicro EL1 or EL2 backplane:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/storage/SAS-1-CompList.pdf
Based on ARC-1680X, as i understand, you are talking about configuration where another chassis is connected externally to an existing system, since i don't see any internal connectors on this card.
But if i build brand new system with all the parts inside then, i think, i should use the ARC-1680ix-8 plus the HP SAS expanders in a chassis with no backplane expanders. Is that correct?
Slow as hell and nowhere near the quality of the stuff mentioned in the thread. You can do that for less across two chassis with hot-swap and still get extremely high performance.