We've had a ton of issues with expanders causing resets. A side benefit, is we get the full IO bandwidth available to each drive.
-J On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 08/24/2012 05:59 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > > We use the LSI 9211-8i SAS/SATA controllers with the IT (direct attach) > > firmware. We do have to reflash but it works quite well. We're stuffing 3 > > of them into 2U 24 drive (2.5in) Supermicro chasses with the direct > attach > > (no SAS expanders) backplane. Been very solid for us. > > Why not use the SAS expanders? I've yet to see any problems with them > and it tremendously reduces cable clutter. > > Cheers, > -- > Saso > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
