Planning to buy RAID Card in India?

[7myths]

Hi,
Sorry If it has been asked before I am new to RAID controllers and I am planning to buy one.

HP 636705-001 LSI 9212-4i SAS 6GB 4-Port Raid Controller Card

Product: HP LSI 9212-4i Raid Controller Card Category: Refurbished Product Part No: 636705-001 AS No.: 629913-001 Manufacturer: HP Interface Type: PCI Express 2.0 x8 SAS Ports: 4 Data Transfer Rate: Up to 6Gb/s per Port> 30 Days Warranty Exclusive of Taxes Shipping Charge Extra***

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This one in particular. However, In India we do not have hardware availability like US so I am bit confused if it is the right one or not. Also, I would like to know when buying one of these what things you should be looking at.

I have only 4 slots on my MOBO. and all of them are utilized. So looking for expansion cards.

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Hardware:
intel i5-6402p
Asus Bx-150M Motherboard
16 GB DDR3 RAM
2x3TB Mirror

 

[sretalla]

I don't think the 9212 can be flashed into IT mode... the 9211 is one I've seen talked about here plenty and it's confirmed to be fine.

You might want to search the forum for that model or at least look at this thread and see if you feel comfortable that you will get to IT mode with it (if you can't do that, it's junk and should not be used with TrueNAS/ZFS).

LSI 9212-4i flash to IT Mode

I am new to TrueNAS and server stuff in general so please don't be too harsh. I managed to get my NAS up and running but I ran out of SATA ports and I was told on the Discord to get an HBA card. I did a bunch of research and I found this LSI 9212-4i locally for $20. I have already spent most/all...

www.truenas.com

 

[7myths]

@sretalla Thanks for the response.
I have came across these 2 posts and made me wonder.

HP SAS92124i

I got this controller for free. It was in a HP workstation and is basically the same controller as LSI-9212-4i4e but without the External port. It had 9212-4i4e printed on the back of it and it had the stock modified LSI/HP ROM and wasn't in IT mode. Having nothing to lose I went to LSI's...

www.truenas.com

How to flash IT mode firmware to HP LSI SAS 9212-4i Controller Card - Flemming's Blog

Because I’m going to use my HP LSI 9212-4i Raid Controller in unRAID, I decided to to flash it to IT mode (Initiator Target). The point is to remove the RAID futures, and other unnecessary features. With IT mode the connected drives will be represented directly to the host. This is recommended...

flemmingss.com

But even then I am not so sure.