I'll second the LSI recommendation. Especially on Solaris. Also, I wouldn't characterize the Adaptec SAS cards as "trash". They've worked just fine for me.
But I'd still recommend the LSI cards over Adaptec (and others) for the following reasons: 1. Direct "raw disk" access. You don't have to put the disk into a RAID array at all. On Adaptec cards, you still have to present each drive as a single-drive "array". 2. LSI cards boot faster. Adaptec RAID cards boot awfully slow - I've seen them take up to five minutes. 3. The "lsiutil" utlity. LSI provides a command-line utility (called "lsiutil") that can access the features of your mpt-based card directly from your OS. Just about any major OS is supported - Win32, Solaris (SPARC and x86), Linux, and probably AIX and HP-UX and maybe even BSD. And the same "lsiutil" can be used on any LSI mpg-based cards, including SAS RAID cards and FC HBAs. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
