HBA 310 and SAS Hard Drive recommended

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I have a Dell T110 II and have a HBA 310 in IT mode and I am looking for some SAS hard drives to attach to this controller, I am looking on Ebay for SAS, 6-8tb drives and I am seeing a lot of these drives as 12gb and I think this controller only works up to 6GB . So what would happen if I attached a 8tb SAS drive listed at 12gb and not 6gb, would that drive still work at the 6gb speeds and work without any problems and later I could move that drive to a controller that is a 12gb controller.

I am wondering what hard drives others with the HBA310 in IT for TrueNas Scale or Core?

I just want to know what drives to use and what drives to stay away from so I can effectively run TrueNas Scale in my home lab.

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I am not sure if they are backward compatible, not something that I have tested.

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ok thanks, I appreciate your response. Jim

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If those drives are spinning disks I don’t think the 6GB on the HBA is going to be a bottleneck. The only time I would think there is a benefit for upgrading the HBA is if you are close to maxing out the number of drives it supports or you upgrade to SSDs.

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SATA drives should also work, might save you some money.

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Thank you Greg, I was thinking about that and I have added 2 sata drives and they are working fine on the controller card. Thanks again Jim

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Thanks Fred, I ordered a 12gb SAS 8TB drive from Ebay and will try it out. thanks again.