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LSI LSI00212 PCI Express 2.0 x8 SATA / SAS 9261-8i SGL
$62.07
LSI MegaRAID Internal Low-Power SATA/SAS 9261-8i 6Gb/s PCI-Express 2.0 w/ 512MB onboard memory RAID Controller Card, Single–Avago Technologies
| Best Seller Ranking |
#23 in Controllers ,RAID Cards |
|---|---|
| Brand |
LSI |
| Model |
LSI00212 |
| Type |
SATA ,SAS |
| Internal Connectors |
2 x SFF-8087 mini-SAS |
| Interface |
PCI Express 2.0 x8 |
| Transfer Rate |
Up to 6Gb/s |
| Cache Memory |
512MB DDRII cache (800MHz) |
| RAID |
RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 |
| Features |
LSISAS2108 ROC 800MHz PowerPCAuto-resume on rebuildAuto-resume on reconstructionOnline Capacity Expansion (OCE)Online RAID Level Migration (RLM)SSD support with SSD GuardSafeStore Encryption ServicesGlobal and dedicated hot spare with revertible hot spare supportSingle controller multipathing (failover)I/O load balancingComprehensive RAID management suite |
| Package Contents |
MegaRAID SAS 9261-8iQIGLP bracketDriver & Documentation CD |
| First Listed on Newegg |
April 10 ,2025 |
12 reviews for LSI LSI00212 PCI Express 2.0 x8 SATA / SAS 9261-8i SGL
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Zan G. –
Pros: We purchased this card because it supports SSD drives. Created a RAID 6, with 6 SSD 30GB, Vertex Turbo drives. The system runs extremely fast. Cons: None. Overall Review: One advantage this card has, the SAS/SATA micro port attachments are on the back of the card. For our server, that was the best card, as the built in cables from the server, were not very long, to get a card that has short cable.
Our unit was a 1U, SuperMicro 1026T-URF sold here.
The card does not come with cables, so if you get it, make sure you get the micro SAS/SATA cables required.
We used this on a SuperMicro 1026t-UR server, which comes with the server, so all worked well.
Alan V. –
Pros: When it works, it’s fantastic. Great read and write speeds with RAID 5. Cons: I’ve had this card in four different motherboards trying to find a good match. Overall Review: First motherboard was an Intel G41 chipset board. It worked in that board, but since the PCI-e slots were only 1.1 the speed was not up to what it could be.
The second board was an Intel G55 chipset board. In this board it would work fine up until you hit the RAID stripe size, then it would jump randomly from huge read speeds to almost nothing. It seems that all P/H55 chipsets only run at half the PCI-e spec. This causes major problems with this card.
The third board was an Intel H67 chipset. The motherboard would not even post with the LSI card in. Stay far away from H/P67 chipsets and any RAID cards.
The fourth (and final) motherboard I’m trying is actually one on the compatibility list. SUPERMICRO MBD-X8STE-O I have high hopes for success with this board.
My advice, be very careful what motherboard you pair this card with.
Jeff A. –
Pros: I have used a number of the MegaRAID controllers mostly with SATA drives but some SAS. They work well. I’ve tried them with a number of motherboards and have had no compatibility issues. Systems have been running Windows 7 Pro and Windows Server 2008 R2. Motherboards from ASRock, ASUS, MSI. Cons: none Overall Review: For my application (analyzing 1200 to 14000 microscope images in a single run) I have found that using WD VelociRaptor 600g 6gps (10000 rpm) can be measured at about 92% of the speed I get from more expensive 15000 rpm SAS drives.
Christopher S. –
Pros: – Very fast read speeds sustained well above 1GB/sec.
– Very fast initial RAID 6 array configuration and initialization.
– no fan makes it silent… but… (see cons)
– Works with consumer level drives. At least the ones I tested. Cons: – VERY slow sustained write speeds. Even slower than a single drive alone. Seeing right around 70MB/sec sustained writes (without caching on with no BBU).
– VERY slow migration to add drives to the array. Longest one took 97 hours using bios-level migration.
– External server email support is NOT in the windows version of the LSI software. Shawn Matthewson from LSI Customer Service said: “I am currently working on a way to use MSM with web based mail.” on 7, April. But I have not heard since. To use SMTP email right now, you need your own, ‘local’ SMTP server.
– Software far more complicated then it needs to be.
– All of the best features require another license. The FastPath, etc. RAID 6 did work without the license though but… Alarms don’t. For this price, that should all be included… Bad enough the BBU is extra.
– Without a fan, gets VERY HOT! Good ventilation is REQUIRED. Overall Review: Using: 8x 2TB ‘green’ class consumer 5400RPM drives in a RAID 6 array 12TB (10.9TB Usable)
– 3x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI
– 5x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3EG HD203WI
– Windows 7 64-bit, NTFS GPT
This system streams large files to multiple computers. Write speed wasn’t important for me and the read speed is phenomenal. With performance drives, I can only imagine. However the slower-then-single write speed gives me pause. I have the 3ware sister card to this one in another system without this particular issue. Curious.
I got this on a very good sale. But otherwise it may not have been my choice. For what I need it for though; it’s working fine. Hopefully working with Customer Service and their programming department may pay off in the long run (for everyone). Or I’ll switch to some flavor of Linux (was my initial plan anyhow actually but… used existing server instead…)
All in all; nice card, but not what it can be. I gave three stars.
f n. –
Pros: This is of course a good card. I have 2 servers running this card and everything is working good. Cons: You might be buying this card because of the 9260i-8 and its different connector location. Beware, this card DOES NOT support audible alerts. The 9260i card (both -4 and -8) support this feature but I think they left the speaker off the 9261i-8. Had to get confirmation from LSI because I find this really hard to believe. This is a 500$+ card and does not have audible alerts, but its cousin does.
Shantikumar K. –
Pros: I’ve had this HBA running a 7-drive RAID 6 array of WD RE4 drives in a Xen host running OpenSUSE (12.1 currently) for 1.5 years. It’s been stable and trouble-free throughout on a decidedly non-server class MBA (MSI 890GXM-G65). Cons: -1 egg because LSI took unreasonably long – until April 2012 – to release management tools compatible with the 3.0 linux kernel (it worked without issue but couldn’t be monitored in the interim). Battery backup units, without which performance defaults to painfully slow write-through, cost ~$150 and last around a year. Overall Review: Bought this HBA after ones from Areca (ARC-1680IX-8) and Highpoint (4310?) proved unstable.
Brian K. –
Pros: Windows 7/8 include drivers, great management utility for windows that will let you create logical volumes from the OS. Supports hot swapping, commonly used types of raid. Cons: High price, but you get what you pay for. Overall Review: I build a lot of virtual machines on my home PC and also do quite a bit of gaming and have backups of all my movies. I’d been using several external USB drives but wanted a setup with better performance. So I bought 8 rosewill hotswap drive bays, 6 2TB WD red drives and 2 1TB WD red drives. I wanted to create a raid 5 setup with the 2TB drives, with a hot spare and run raid 1 with the 1TB drives. I tried several cheaper solutions, not wanting to shell out $500 for a mid-high end server raid controller. After toying with the cheaper solutions out there, I can only recommend that you don’t bother. Spend a couple of hundred more bucks and get something like this. It just plain works – no screwing around with drivers and poorly written management apps. You plug it in, connect your drives, configure your logical disks and you’re up and running in minutes with reliable raid. I still need to run benchmarks on everything but it’s notably faster than the onboard raid was and better than any of the cheaper controllers that I tried.
Charles K. –
Pros: Raid 6. Fast and easy to setup… with the issue Cons: This card gets HOT! These are meant for servers with powerful fans. I installed mine and quickly got to transfering my data. The raid would disappear. On reboot id get a list of errors saying my memory on the card was bad. My machine has good cooling ( so i thought ). I tested by placing a box fan against the case and boom. Running without issue. I am ordering delta fans as we speak.
Also the supplied software lacks good features. I cannot setup anything outside a local smtp server for warnings. They have some addons but charge you for them. Overall Review: Raid 6. 8x 3TB Sata
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