Nigel Smith wrote: > It's a pity that Sun does not manufacture something like this. > The x4500 Thumper, with 48 disks is way over the top for most companies, > and too expensive. And the new X4150 only has 8 disks. > This Intel box with 12 hot-swap drives and two internal boot drives > looks like the sweet-spot to me.
Internal drives suck. If you go through the trouble of putting in a drive, at least make it hot pluggable. > The only problem is that Intel are not listing Solaris as a > supported operating system. argv! surely this is a clerical error? > The question is how are all those SAS/SATA disks interfaced to the > motherboard. As far as I can see it's using some new chipset > called 'Blackford'. Has Solaris got a driver for that chipset? Blackford is the 2-socket bridge chip for the latest Intel quad cores. We use the Blackford on the X4150. > I don't think so, but I'd love to be wrong on that. I love it when you're wrong :-) -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
