If you want to keep the costs down, and are willing to sacrifice the
ability to use SAS, you might look at these. This is a vary well tested
chipset, as it is the one used in SUN's "thumper" machines, and you would
only need two of them. (It does not have the RAID support that your LSI
has, but you shouldn't be using that with ZFS anyway)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/16/2008 08:09:38 PM:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to open solaris and am trying to setup a ZFS based storage
solution.
>
> I am looking at setting up a system with the following specs:
>
> Intel BOXDG33FBC
> Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz
> 2 or 4 GB ram
>
> For the drives I am looking at using a
> LSI SAS3081E-R
>
> I've been reading around and it sounds like LSI solutions work well
> in terms of compatability with solaris. Could someone help me verify
this?
>
> Or are there any alternate cards I should be looking at?
>
> I'm looking at having a max of 12 HDs so I'd use this card in
> conjunction with another 2 or 4 port card.
>
> My other option is to get 3 PCI or PCIE based 4 port cards which I
> am open to. I'm just trying to keep the cost low.
>
> Thank you
>
>
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