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originalnickname
Mar 9, 2005

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Google says less than or equal to 2TB. I say upgrade the firmware since you've got the drives on order anyway and if it works, yay you!

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originalnickname
Mar 9, 2005

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All I can say is what works for me. I can personally attest that my fileserver has this one in IT mode and can do 4TB drives:

LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] (rev 03)

I'm passing all the drives through to ZFS... Good luck!

originalnickname
Mar 9, 2005

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From Reddit (grain of salt)

That card you are referring to is a SAS1078 chipset. Most similar generic is: LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 RAID Controller, similar OEM is a Dell Perc 6/i. Unfortunately this card does not support IT mode, but from some research shows you can configure each disk for its own RAID 0 in the RAID controller BIOS and it will report each disk individually. If its cheap or free, may be worth an attempt. It will likely slow the boot time down a bit for the RAID card to initialize, but most "servers" don't reboot too often anyways.

If it doesn't have a JBOD option, looks like that's the only way to do it.

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