Hello, guys! As the title suggests, I am looking for an HBA. The chassis I am planning to get is an Inwin IW-RS216-07 with 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA bays and 2x 4x 7mm U.2 SSD bays.

I am not sure which HBA (or perhaps multiple HBAs) would be suitable to utilize the full capabilities of the backplanes. Just to clarify, I am talking about an HBA and NOT a RAID card, as I will be using the system with ZFS.

Any suggestions or directions to which HBA to get would be greatly appreciated!

  • TheHolm@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    27 days ago

    what is wrong with old good LSA 2008 based HBAs with SAS-to-Oculink cable? and for NVMe part, adapter is just port format converter, pick any.

    • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      wait so i can use a single HBA and use some of the ports to connect to the oculink ports of the backplane and some for the miniSAS ports of the backplane?

      • TheHolm@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        24 days ago

        yes, is what i get reading about that server backplane. NVME part will need another “controller”