Gary Gendel wrote:
This is a great board and works well with OpenSolaris. I've been using a PCI-X
version of this board for years (the same one in the original Thumper). One
caveat... It won't work with Sata Multipliers (yet). If you intend to use
these to reduce your cabling to an external box find a different board which
will support AHCI.
in the americas, I picked up a pair of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020 they're
cheap, sufficient for a home fileserver, and a duece of those will set
you back less than the one SAS card would. only downsides are:
1) you need a USB key to flash them to the proper firmware (takes liek 5
minutes, only have to do it once)
2) they're sata I, not sata II or SAS.
aside from those two observations, I've never had any issues with them.
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