Some one emailed me recommending there ASUS P5BV/SAS which has a 8 port lsi sas controller built in and 2 pci-x slots. for the price ~£280 its good value with the lsi built in.
The intel little falls 2 looks great but would only give me 2 new sata ports (2 onbord + 4 on a add-in card.) i would recommend such a setup, as i would the 1.8GHz VIA Epia SN, to anyone needing no more than a 4 disk raidz 2 disk mirrored rpool. I need 6 sata ports now and some way to expand in the future either pci-x or pci-e. Im going to investigate the P5BV/SAS as a possibility(not everything works e.g 4 intel sata ports) but would still like any suggestions you may have. Another emailed suggestion was to use Vmware under Linux to get round driver issues. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
