On 1/5/13 11:42 AM, "Russ Poyner" <rpoy...@engr.wisc.edu> wrote:
>I'm configuring a box with 24x 3Tb consumer SATA drives <snip> >The box is a supermicro with 36 bays controlled through a single LSI >9211-8i. My recollection is that it's far from best practice to have SATA drives connected to a SAS expander; better to either use SAS drives or use one of the Supermicro chassis designs that doesn't use expanders in their backplanes and control the drives with multiple LSI cards. If you've already purchased the configuration as described, you may be a little stuck with it, but my understanding is that the combination of SATA drives and SAS expanders is a large economy-sized bucket of pain. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
