Hii I am Haresh Singh...

I want to use 8 Port os SAS and SATA how do i use ??

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Hii I am Haresh Singh...

I want to use 8 Port os SAS and SATA how do i use ??

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Haresh,

This card only works with specific ASUS mainboards that support it.  It has a dedicated non-standard bus interface on the edge of the MB, and the SAS/SATA connectors are on the mainboard, not on the PIKE 2108.

The card provides a standard LSI/MegaRAID controller and uses standard LSI accessories (eg battery-backup, management software).

I use it on an ASUS KGPE-D16 MB with 4TB Seagate drives in a RAID-6 configuration.  That provides around 24TB of redundant storage with plenty of additional SATA connectors for optical and utility drives.

Note that performance is no better than the equivalent LSI PCI-based controller.  The advantage to me of the PIKE card is that it fits well in the 4U chassis I have.

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