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IBM Serveraid M1015 SAS/SATA Controller 46M0831

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Brand	IBM
Hardware Interface	PCI
Item Dimensions LxWxH	6.61 x 0.55 x 2.72 inches
Style	Classic
Item Weight	95 Grams

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Internal Connectors: 2 x SFF-8087 mini-SAS
Interface: PCI-Express 2.0 x8
This RAID controller provides connectivity to internal direct-attach or expander-attached hard disk, solid-state, or self-encrypting drives.

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The ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller for IBM System x is an entry-level 6 Gbps SAS 2.0 PCI Express 2.0 RAID controller. The adapter has two internal mini-SAS connectors to drive up to 32 devices and supports the same base RAID 0, 1, and 10 feature set and drivers as the M5000 series controllers. With the attachment of the ServeRAID M1000 Advanced Feature Key, the ServeRAID M1015 offers the option of RAID 5 and SED Encryption Key management, while still being sensitive to administrator cost concerns in an entry-level RAID environment.

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Product Dimensions

6.61 x 0.55 x 2.72 inches

Item Weight

3.35 ounces

ASIN

B0034DMSO6

Item model number

46M0831

Customer Reviews

3.8 24 ratings

3.8 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#1,116 in Internal Computer Networking Cards

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Date First Available

April 1, 2010

Manufacturer

IBM

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SecretReviewer

Moderately expensive given what it does, but I'm using ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 8, 2016

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Moderately expensive given what it does, but I'm using this as a sas expander for a 16 slot back pane.

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Kevin H

Great card but missing pci bracket

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2015

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Great price for a great quality card. There is only one down side, which is why I only gave it three stars instead of five. No where in the description does it mention anything about the pci-e bracket and the picture shows the card coming with the bracket. Well, needless to say when I got the card, although I could have installed it without the bracket I have no bracket. I have yet to complete the final install of the card since I have yet to find a bracket. I did however update the firmware to the IT firmware, and the card works great. If this item doesn't come with the bracket, the description should specify this.

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SargentNg

Great value!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2013

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I was looking for an 8 port SAS/SATA controller card to replace my Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 in my home NAS running Ubuntu Server. I have about 10 drives in a software RAID. The Supermicro card was slow and even worse caused silent bit corruption.

I came across this IBM M1015 new at a great price on Amazon so I bought it. Online users review it pretty highly. Amazon like always has been great. The card arrived pretty quickly. It came with low profile and regular brackets, manual, and CD. It doesn't come with cables. The cables can be had for pretty cheap online.

No driver installation was needed in Ubuntu. The installation went pretty quickly with no issues. I replace the Supermicro card, attached drives to it, and flashed it to LSI 9211 IT (straight pass through) mode so it just acts like extra ports. The other modes allow setting up RAID drives. My NAS is running a software RAID so I don't use the card's onboard RAID functions. The hardware key to activate RAID5 can be had for pretty cheap on eBay if you need it.

The M1015 has been great so far. So far it has been rock solid and fast. There has been no bit corruption that I have seen like with the Supermicro card. The drives on it are as fast as the ones on the onboard ports. I have plenty of ports if I want to expand in the future.

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Gjermund G Thorsen

RAID is legacy.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 29, 2016

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This is just a joke unless you need a RAID, buy a 12 Gbps HBA. Myself I run ZFS and RAIDZ[1-3] is an FS standard feature along with copy on write.

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Charles Hurley

What a surprise of a great card!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 19, 2016

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What a surprise of a great card. Using this card in my new ZFS system. My 4-5 year old ZFS system I used a LSI card in. That card was way more expensive. All I had to do was flash this card to a LSI 2008 in IT Admin mode and away I went, its an LSI chipset and has LSI stamped on the board. I am using it with an HP SAS Expander. Everything went great. One word of warning flashing this thing took some research and I ended up being lucky I was using an ASUS MB that would boot from the bios to a uefi shell. FreeDOS wouldn't work.

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Knight of Cydonia

Solid controller card for a workstation.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2012

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I've purchased two of these via Amazon, both work quite well. The cards themselves are a great deal as they're quite cheaper than their LSI counterparts (which these are).
Amazing how a name changes everything. Often IBM includes these as a basic controller in their servers and they're swapped for higher cards, leaving the market flush with these.
I personally am using these each in ESXi whiteboxes. These cards fully support iommu with an appropriate board and caned be properly passed to virtual machines. That alone makes these
cards worth it!.

One important thing to note, is when buying cabling, make sure you're getting a SFF-8087 forward cable, this is important as reverse cables wont work!

15 people found this helpful

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Tyerone Miller

Great Card for FreeNAS once Flashed with IT firmware

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 23, 2013

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I bought this to act as a passthrough card so I could use it on FreeNAS. It originally didn't work as FreeNAS didn't see the drives. So, I flashed with the LSI 9211 IT firmware after I did some research on procedure to get it working. Works great so far and I could hotswap drives easily if need them replaced.

I didn't really use the original firmware or raid card bios setup too much, so I can't really review on that. However, the ability to use another firmware that would work is definitely a plus for me.

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Randy

Card works Good with FreeNas.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2016

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Jan

Cheap card with great power, but hard to set up

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on February 17, 2015

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Before deciding to buy this card, I've read multiple articles about cross flashing it to 'LSI 9220-8i' since it is using the very same chip.

A few weeks later, once I was holding it in my hands, I figured I would just run it in original mode and cross flash it only if I really need to (since cross flashing comes with the risk of breaking the card).
The problems started when I connected my card to my 3 yr old mainboard to a Computer running Ubuntu 14. I was not able to get the original card working and decided to cross flash it. This resulted in me having a non-booting PC due to outdated binaries from the cross flashing process which caused my card to not being able to install any firmware at all. Long story short, I spent the next 6 hours of my weekend trying to fix everything.
What worked in the end was getting the MB to boot into UEFI and flashing the new FW from there. Also I made sure the MB is running on the latest BIOS and managed to chroot into my Ubuntu installation and install the latest LSI drivers.

To conclude, after a very lengthy process to get the card running in the first place, I am more than happy with its performance. I was using a very cheap 4 port SATA controller before, which peaked at a 10MB/s performance (1 disk only) before dropping to 800KB/s after a few hours. With this card I'm getting full speed SATA access, but then again I'm using just one disk so far.

I would recommend this card to anyone with decent computer skills, since it can be tricky to set up, but offers great performance.

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falta pieza

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on March 18, 2020

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Le falta una pieza, como se ve en la foto: la pieza metálica que se atornilla a la caja.

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Tomas Engin

Quick delivery. No bracket.

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on April 9, 2020

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Quick dispatch and delivery. Product (IBM ServeRAID M1015) works without problems.

Only negative is that it came without the bracket.. The picture had one and the description didn't say it would be bracketless. Annoying. But I'm still somewhat satisfied.

DerFahrendeTechniker

Als HBA 100% zu empfehlen, als RAID-Kontroller jedoch nicht.

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 31, 2014

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Schwierige Sache eine gute Sternenanzahl zu geben. Wieso?

Ich benutze den Kontroller hauptsächlich als crossgeflasheden LSI 9211-8i (Da die Kontroller identisch sind, nur anderes BIOS) im IT Mode. Damit wird er ein reiner HBA Kontroller.
In diesem Modus schlägt er alle Konkurrenten in der Preisklasse um meilen und OnBoard Chips um Lichjahre.
Jemand der ernsthaft ein Software Raid aufbauen will sollte hier zu greifen. Zu meinen Z67 OnBoard chip merkt man den unterschiedlich deutlich.
Im normalen Betrieb von Festplatten ohne Raid oder sonderlich große Beanspruchung wäre dieser Kontroller aber übertrieben.
Jedoch sollte man ihn in erwägung ziehen, falls man seinen Rechner mit Sata3 Ports aufrüsten will oder mehr Sata Ports benötigt.

Jetzt kommen wir zu den Minus Punkten:

Als HWRaid Kontroller, taugt dieser Kontoller leider mangels Cache nicht.
Raid 5 ist extrem Träge, ein Rebuild dauert ewig. Raid 0 und Raid 1 ist befriedigend, jedoch auch nicht perfekt. Falls man also ein HW Raid in der heutigen Zeit noch aufbauen will, sollte man zu einem besseren/teureren mit BBU und Cache tendieren.

Ich setzte 2x Kontroller in meinen Server ein. Softwareseitig habe ich erst Raid 5 von MS und nun Flexraid (tRaid) in Betrieb, was auch wunderbar funktioniert.

Festplatten und SSD sind Bootbar mit diesem Kontroller, ebenso als Raid verbund (wovon ich jedoch abrate).
Optische Laufwerke sind nicht ansprechbar.

Da der Kontroller als HBA einwandfrei funktioniert, dabei sehr performant ist und die Preis/Leistung einzigartig ist, gebe ich dem Kontoller 4/5 Sterne.

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