Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> writes: > Actually, in the motherboard pictures I see 6 SATA ports (blue/black/red) > and 8 SAS ports (white/gray), and the AIDA64 output shows 6 SATA ports, as > expected. It says the LSI 1068 chip is an 8-port chip, so 8 SAS ports > would make sense.
[...] Man, you've supplied some really good input in this thread. Helps my understanding quite a lot. Thanks. Just to make sure I've understood at least a bit of whats been said. I'm thinking I can get my 6-8 sata disks running... no problem. And limited to 2 tb the sas ports but that limit still would be put well above my original goal of 3-4 sets of mirrored hdd as zpools. And then that leaves something like 50% more area to grow into if it becomes necessary. One question: Something I've seen while looking at specs on this and similar aged servers gave me the notion I might be able to install a couple of IDE hdd. I do see IDE style connectors in the wiring harness If that is so, it would suit me well since I have a pair of 500gb IDE drives. I'm thinking that might be a good place to stash rpool, leaving all the sata/sas ports for data. _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
