On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Andrew Martin wrote:

Note that I added a new, replacement drive to the array at 17:09. In 
lieu of Marvel SAS cards, what would you recommend?

LSI 2008 is very well tested HBA controller, it exists in many vendors' 
cards. Works properly with 4TB drives (and larger I presume). For instance 
the LSI SAS 9211-8i HBA has this chip.

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