On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:17:30AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I have a OpenIndiana system with 16-cores of Xeon E5 and Intel i350 > Ethernet and these seem to work great with recent OpenIndiana/Illumos. > I was a bit nervous about i350 Ethernet since the driver was not added > until 151a3 but it has worked perfectly.
Sweet, thanks for the feedback. > only $20-30). Other than the SAS controller, there is not much extra > cost for SAS as compared with SATA if one sticks with a supplier like > Supermicro. Due to this, I went with SAS for my system, except that > SATA is used for boot/system drives. I was comparing near-line SAS to consumer SATA, you're right that there's not much difference between enterprise SATA and near-line SAS, I'd definitely go SAS if I was willing to pay that much for drives. Right now I'm thinking I'll roll the dice on the WD Red's and see what happens. Maybe I'll just get 3-4 at first and do some benchmarking. I'd love to go SAS but I'm already so far out of budget <sigh>... I might regret skimping on drives though. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
