Because I am slowly running out of space on my old 2 x 120 GB Vertex 2 SSD's I am looking into maybe switching to 2 x 240 GB Vertex 3 instead and use the old ones elsewhere.
However the old ones are raiding using an on-board Intel raid controller which is ofc. SATA II, so I was thinking of moving to a dedicated hardware raid controller.
If you ask "Why, what do you need the bandwidth/performance for?" the only answer I can provide you with is "Because I can".
The thing is, what dedicated controller should one choose for this, I am familiar with the LSI MegaRaid controllers as I am using an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i in my ESXi server, but I am thinking that is maybe just a little overkill for only connecting 2 SSD drives, so might as well save a bit there since the price tag for this is obviously already going to be quite high, not that that is a major problem, but was just thinking of finding a "non-sas" controller.
Obviously I need to be able to boot from it.
However the old ones are raiding using an on-board Intel raid controller which is ofc. SATA II, so I was thinking of moving to a dedicated hardware raid controller.
If you ask "Why, what do you need the bandwidth/performance for?" the only answer I can provide you with is "Because I can".
The thing is, what dedicated controller should one choose for this, I am familiar with the LSI MegaRaid controllers as I am using an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i in my ESXi server, but I am thinking that is maybe just a little overkill for only connecting 2 SSD drives, so might as well save a bit there since the price tag for this is obviously already going to be quite high, not that that is a major problem, but was just thinking of finding a "non-sas" controller.
Obviously I need to be able to boot from it.