The long awaited PCIe 3.0 bus has finally arrived and it is more than a bit fashionably late for the enterprise arena. The rush is on for companies such as LSI to deliver a host of storage components ...

RAID controllers are a lot of things to different people. Some like me, a power user, is able to tune the RAID block size for general use computing, balancing the small file IOPS with large sequential ...

Buy a low-end SAS HBA. Something like the LSI 9211-4i would probably be a good choice. Alternatively, there might be something on eBay that's a pull, but I don't know which Dell/HP/IBM part numbers ...