Do HBAs just inevitably cause problems? Or am I just buying bad ones?
I bought an LSI 9200-8I in IT mode for my Unraid box back in 2022 so could have more drives and cleaner cabling than sata. Ran it for a year and liked it so much I got my friend to install one in his server as well. 3 months later and mine starts throwing UDMA CRC errors and freaking out - so I pull mine. Now his is starting to do the same, had his second drive throwing the same error.
I've seen back and fourth on HBAs for a lot of things, but is there something I'm missing? At this point I'm telling people I know who run unraid to just buy PCIE sata boards...