What kind of rates do you see on your current Supermicro card? in terms of MB/sec perhaps?
On 7/23/08, Ross Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not 100% sure, I suspect it can since most SAS controllers can handle > SATA, and in the list of formats for the card they have SATA listed. I'd > probably download the manual or drop Supermicro a quick e-mail to be sure. > > If it does support SATA, it's then a question of which you go for. I'd be > tempted to go for the newer card myself, but then I'm not running any > critical data, and I'm in no rush for things to be fixed. > > > > Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:00:51 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [storage-discuss] Quietest 6+ drive box for ZFS/rsync > > CC: [email protected] > > > > On 7/23/08, Ross Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, I have it on a PCI-X slot, and I thought Areca made RAID cards? > > > There's not much need for a raid card when you have ZFS unless you need > the > > > cache for write performance. > > > > oh this is true. all their cards are RAID. duh. i was just thinking > > performance. but i suppose if the supermicro one is in a pci-x slot > > and all that it should be good enough. > > > > would that supermicro SAS controller be faster in general? i'm > > wondering about that. can it transparently use SATA drives or do i > > need connectors, or something weird? i have not yet dealt with SAS. > > > ________________________________ > Win £3000 to spend on whatever you want at Uni! Click here to WIN! _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
