On 2012-11-17 17:17, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
Prices I have seen this year for Enterprise SAS and SATA drives did not show a large bump in price for SAS as compared with SATA (maybe only $20-30). Other than the SAS controller, there is not much extra cost for SAS as compared with SATA
I think, speaking about "ridiculous pricing" the OP meant Consumer SATA versus Enterprise SATA and SAS. While the latter cost about the same, they are often twice or more as expensive as the former, for the same vendor's sibling model. Then again, we are ourside the black box and have little idea what we'd actually overpay for, if both devices are rated roughly the same on the badge (i.e. 24/7, years of warranty, etc.) When you pick the disks up by dozens, the multiplied margin is large enough to worry about - and to want to save quite a few bucks. > General concerns for the new rig On a side note, expect the USB3 ports on modern hardware to not work with illumos-based OSes, until someone comes up with any sort of USB3 driver (there was talk of a tedious project done "right" in order to use the ports at full speed, and of a possibility to stick support on existing framework and suffer lags - but do use the ports while waiting for the better solution). So, if USB is of any concern to you, make sure to have some USB2 (USB1? ;) ports available on the motherboard or an addon card. Otherwise not even a mouse lights up on a USB3 port... HTH, //Jim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
