Hi, anyone could point me at an ELI5 about SAS hardware? I’d like to assemble a NAS using an old HP Z200, I want SAS because I’d get also a tape drive for backups and I cannot find SATA tape drives. For example, is a Dell Perc H310 pci-e card good for me? Can I avoid hardware RAID?

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I would not use a RAID controller to connect a tape drive. I would use a regular HBA SAS controller, like from LSI.

    You might also be able to flash a RAID controller to IT mode, which turns it into the same thing, if you can find one that can do that and is significantly cheaper.

    • syaochanOP
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      9 months ago

      Thanks. If I understood correctly, according to here it should be possible to flash dell h310 to IT mode.