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Controller LSI SAS 9211-8i

Posted: 14 Sep 2014 20:19
by MoloMuy
Hi can anyone tell me if this controller supports hard drives Western Digital 6TB RED

Controller LSI SAS 9211-8i

thank you very much

Re: Controller LSI SAS 9211-8i

Posted: 14 Sep 2014 20:43
by apollo567
Why shouldn't it ? LSI2008 supports Disks >2TB, think thats sufficient

Re: Controller LSI SAS 9211-8i

Posted: 14 Sep 2014 20:47
by b0ssman
yes it does.
the limit with some controllers are with > 2tb because those use 32 bit addressing.
the newer ones support 48 bit addressing.

Bit Sector Size = byte =
2^32 * 512 = 2199023255552 = 2TB

So if its supports 3Tb drives it will support 6tb drives.

Re: Controller LSI SAS 9211-8i

Posted: 19 Sep 2014 22:48
by MoloMuy
thank you very much for the answers

wanted to increase the WD NAS RED 3 x 3 tb but I will with 3 of 5 TB WD RED

thank you very much