Bought new, reasonable price, works well on Linux
I bought this to use with a 3U SGI Rackable SE3016 16 Caddies 3.5" SAS SATA Storage Expander that I bought used on eBay. The Rackable SE3016 came with an SFF-8088 cable. The LSI SAS 9200-8e does NOT come with an SFF-8088 cable.
The LSI SAS 9200-8e works perfectly on Ubuntu (14.04 Trusty Tahr, kernel 4.6.0) using module mpt2sas. No special configuration required - it is auto-detected by the kernel and JUST WORKS!
On my ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 motherboard, the LSI SAS 9200-8e works in PCI-E 2.0 x8 mode. This will scale up to about 8 GBytes/sec - way beyond what the maximum that the 3U SGI Rackable SE3016 16 Caddies 3.5" SAS SATA Storage Expander will support (about 1.5 GBytes/sec).
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