We decided to keep the MSA 1040 SAS and as we have only a budget of 6000 Dollars to fix this issue, we found that the best solution is to buy a new HP proliant server with an HP H241 12Gb 2-ports Ext Smart Host Bus Adapter 726911-B21 integrated.
To avoid waiting 3 months to import the proliant, we searched on proliant servers available in my country. There is proliant DL 380 that I could verify its compatibilty with Ext Smart Host Bus Adapter 726911-B21 in Page 3 : Quickspec
We received an expert today and he said we have HD SAS ports on or MSA (product no: K2Q90A), and we need 2 cables like this one : External HD Mini SAS to SFF-8644 cable on amazon . I couldn't find its equivalent on HP site. He said Mini-SAS HD to Mini-SAS Cables listed in page 27 of Quickspecs are not going to work.
I would like to confirme the correctness of this solution with you. I still need the reference of the cable if the solution is correct.
On the proliant, we will use a Windows server 2008 R2. Is there a driver that we need to puchase so that windows server 2008 reconize the bus adapter ?
Thank you very much for your help