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This is the case where I don't understand Sun's politics at all: Sun doesn't offer really cheap JBOD which can be bought just for ZFS. And don't even tell me about 3310/3320 JBODs - they are horrible expansive :-(
Yep, multipacks are EOL for some time now -- killed by big disks. Back when disks were small, people would buy multipacks to attach to their workstations. There was a time when none of the workstations had internal disks, but I'd be dating myself :-) For datacenter-class storage, multipacks were not appropriate. They only had single-ended SCSI interfaces which have a limited cable budget which limited their use in racks. Also, they weren't designed to be used in a rack environment, so they weren't mechanically appropriate either. I suppose you can still find them on eBay.
If Sun wants ZFS to be absorbed quicker it should have such _really_ cheap JBOD.
I don't quite see this in my crystal ball. Rather, I see all of the SAS/SATA chipset vendors putting RAID in the chipset. Basically, you can't get a "dumb" interface anymore, except for fibre channel :-). In other words, if we were to design a system in a chassis with perhaps 8 disks, then we would also use a controller which does RAID. So, we're right back to square 1. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
