On 1/7/14 11:15 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana)" <openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
>The main point is, a port multiplier might be useful if it's *outside* >your system. Supposing you have an external enclosure that holds 4 >drives or something like that... You might say, "I have SATA 6Gbit bus >which is good enough for the 4 drives in that enclosure." And I would >tend to agree, if they let you run a single 6Gbit SATA cable to the >enclosure and then internally they use a SATA port multiplier, that would >be pretty nice. But when I look around, I don't see any 4-drive >enclosures that use a single upstream 6Gbit ESATA bus... Sans Digital makes one-- their part number TR4M6GNC, selling at NewEgg for $134.99. I'd never use one myself, because they seem to be a recipe for weird flakiness and I/O hangs, and ZFS does not deal well with SATA kinda-sorta-maybe failure modes. But they exist. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, and shouting GERONIMO!!!" -- Bill McKenna _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
