Miles, thanks for helping clear up the confusion surrounding this subject! My decision is now as above: for my existing NAS to leave the pool as-is, and seek a 2+ SATA port card for the 2-drive mirror for 2 x 30GB SATA boot SSDs that I want to add.
For the next NAS build later on this summer, I will go for an LSI 1068-based SAS/SATA configuration based on a PCIe expansion slot, rather than the ageing PCI-X slots. Using PCIe instead of PCI-X also opens up a load more possible motherboards, although as I want ECC support this still limits choices for mobos. I was thinking of using something like a Xeon E5504 (Nehalem) in the new NAS, and I've been hunting for a good, highly compatible mobo that will give the least aggro (trouble) with OpenSolaris, and this one looks good as it's pretty much totally Intel chipsets, and it has an LSI SAS1068E, which I trust should be supported by Solaris, and it also has additional PCIe slots for additional future expansion, and basic onboard graphics chip, and dual Intel GbE NICs: SuperMicro X8STi-3F: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8STi-3F.cfm Any comments on this mobo welcome, plus suggestions for a possible PCIe-based 2+ port SATA card that is reliable and has a solid driver. Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
