Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017, at 09:55 AM, Frank Leonhardt (m) wrote: > Simple answer is to use either. You're running FreeBSD with ZFS, right? > BSD will hot plug anything. I suspect 'hot plug' relates to Microsoft > workaround hardware RAID. > > Hot plug enclosures will also let the host know a drive

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Frank Leonhardt (m)
On 9 August 2017 16:29:52 BST, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 9, 2017, at 09:55 AM, Frank Leonhardt (m) wrote: >> Simple answer is to use either. You're running FreeBSD with ZFS, >right? >> BSD will hot plug anything. I suspect 'hot plug' relates to Microsoft >> workaround

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Alan Somers
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: > My server has 8 "hot-plug" slots, that can accept both SATA and SAS drives. > SATA ones tend to be cheaper for the same features (like cache-sizes), what > am I getting for the extra money spent on SAS? > > Asking

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 09/08/2017 16:59, Alan Somers wrote: On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: My server has 8 "hot-plug" slots, that can accept both SATA and SAS drives. SATA ones tend to be cheaper for the same features (like cache-sizes), what am I getting for the extra

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Lanny Baron
Not sure what kind of server you are referring to but our servers can take SAS and SATA at the same time. We build plenty of servers running FreeBSD which in some cases have SATA SSD for boot drives (in a RAID-1) and then X amount of either SATA or SAS or both in a different RAID configuration

Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Mikhail T.
My server has 8 "hot-plug" slots, that can accept both SATA and SAS drives. SATA ones tend to be cheaper for the same features (like cache-sizes), what am I getting for the extra money spent on SAS? Asking specifically about the protocol differences... It would seem, for example, SATA can not

Re: Do I need SAS drives?..

2017-08-09 Thread Frank Leonhardt (m)
Simple answer is to use either. You're running FreeBSD with ZFS, right? BSD will hot plug anything. I suspect 'hot plug' relates to Microsoft workaround hardware RAID. Hot plug enclosures will also let the host know a drive has been pulled. Otherwise ZFS won't know whether it was pulled or is