Cookiefamily
Cadet
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Hello,
I recently got gifted some servers (Fujitsu RX300 S8), but they came without HDDs and a Raid Controller based on the SAS2208. Since I havent been successfull in crossflashing it to a 2308, I wanted to also buy some used HBAs for them.
The drives I want to use are all SAS2 (6Gbit/s). Would I have any benefit of going with a SAS 3 (12Gbit/s) Controller since 16 drives can definitly saturate a SAS 2 link or will it downgrade everything to SAS 2 as soon as you have a SAS 2 drive on your backplane?
I recently got gifted some servers (Fujitsu RX300 S8), but they came without HDDs and a Raid Controller based on the SAS2208. Since I havent been successfull in crossflashing it to a 2308, I wanted to also buy some used HBAs for them.
The drives I want to use are all SAS2 (6Gbit/s). Would I have any benefit of going with a SAS 3 (12Gbit/s) Controller since 16 drives can definitly saturate a SAS 2 link or will it downgrade everything to SAS 2 as soon as you have a SAS 2 drive on your backplane?