Note: only SAS drives should be used with expanders. SATA drivers are
unlikely to work well with expanders. For those, this card counts as "8
drives only". Which is IMO still good.

-- 
  Bronek Kozicki
  b...@spamcop.net

On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, at 01:18 AM, taii...@gmx.com wrote:
> Another option that would provide the best performance is attaching the 
> drive to a SR-IOV capable HBA's VF and then using VFIO to attach the VF 
> to your VM.
> 
> The LSI SAS 2308 series is the most affordable choice for this at around 
> $50-70 for an 8 internal port adapter (which can support up to 256 
> drives via expander cards)
> 
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