On 2/13/2014 11:25 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Andrew Martin wrote:

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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.

Agreed, LSI based HBAs are all pretty reliable.  These chips can be
found on motherboards, LSI branded HBAs, as well as IBM, Intel, and
other branded HBAs.  The multi-lane Adaptecs are good as well.

Honestly, I've only really heard of serious problems with the mvsas
driver and the Marvell SAS 88SE64xx based HBAs, most often the
Supermicro, but also the Highpoint 2600 family.  There may be others.

-- 
Stan