Can anyone shed some light on which branded controllers will work with any drives whether it's SAS or SATA?
For example, the Dell Y8Y69 mezzanine card doesn't play ball with anything except for Dell drives. At least the 8 that I have would not. I had 600gb IBM SAS drives all set to go into the server, but when I installed them, the controller saw them but wouldn't let me do anything with them as far as creating a stripe set out of them.
I want to get a card that's got 2 external SAS ports. Internal ports don't really matter as I want to build a rather large external array. I don't have experience with this sort of thing, since I am mostly a software person.
I am trying to avoid using the mezzanine slot because I am sticking the 40gb IB adapters in those, so I am looking that will fit into a C6100 node's PCI-e slot; low profile, short length, etc.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
For example, the Dell Y8Y69 mezzanine card doesn't play ball with anything except for Dell drives. At least the 8 that I have would not. I had 600gb IBM SAS drives all set to go into the server, but when I installed them, the controller saw them but wouldn't let me do anything with them as far as creating a stripe set out of them.
I want to get a card that's got 2 external SAS ports. Internal ports don't really matter as I want to build a rather large external array. I don't have experience with this sort of thing, since I am mostly a software person.
I am trying to avoid using the mezzanine slot because I am sticking the 40gb IB adapters in those, so I am looking that will fit into a C6100 node's PCI-e slot; low profile, short length, etc.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.