Excellent, Thanks for the tip, I just bought one and a set of cables. sam On Sep 4, 2008, at 11:23 PM, mike wrote:
> oh crap. i forgot, that one does require the right cables. glad i > looked at this beforehand. i would have ordered everything and wound > up having to re-order cables and wait even longer to build the box ;p > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:17 PM, James Andrewartha > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sam wrote: >>> So 13 drives isn't cutting it and I want to add more drives to my >>> Solaris server but all the listed compatible disc controllers are >>> expensive RAID controllers (cheapest one is ~$200 for 4 more SATA >>> II ports). Are there other disc controllers available that I'm >>> not seeing? I don't need a RAID controller, just more SATAII ports. >> >> The Supermicro AOC-USAS-L8i is the crowd favorite. The only trick >> is you'll >> need the right breakout cables, check the zfs-discuss archives: >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-July/049214.html >> and >> associated emails. >> >> -- >> James Andrewartha >> _______________________________________________ >> storage-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
