https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/hba/ Recent content in Hba on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/hardware/tri-mode-adapters-nvme-as-sas/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/hardware/tri-mode-adapters-nvme-as-sas/ A tri-mode adapter lets any bay take SAS, SATA or NVMe, which is why U.3 backplanes exist. What it hides: your NVMe drives arrive in Linux as SCSI disks on mpt3sas, queue depth 128, sharing one tag pool and one x8 uplink. Two Gen4 drives saturate the card, one Gen5 is already past it. Whether the trade still makes sense in 2026.