Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread Hong Wei Liam
I had initially tried only having the SAS drives installed with the same results. Later, the SATA drives were added in for comparison. Regards, WL On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:27 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > Is the card hosting any SATA and SAS drives on the same port, or are > they segregated

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi James, > I would use the path of least resistance: install two controllers, one > dedicated for SATA (if you must have SATA drives), and the other > dedicated for SAS. We've generally used only SAS for our ZFS pools, and will continue to do so. However, we're looking at adding some SSDs and th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread James Carlson
weiliam.hong wrote: > 3. All 4 drives are connected to a single HBA, so I assume the mpt_sas > driver is used. Are SAS and SATA drives handled differently ? I think others have reported poor results from combining these, even though they're "supposed" to work via protocol translation. http://gdam

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Is the card hosting any SATA and SAS drives on the same port, or are they segregated SAS on one and SATA on the other? -J On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:01 AM, weiliam.hong wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a fresh installation of OI151a: > - SM X8DTH, 12GB RAM, LSI 9211-8i (latest IT-mode firmware) > -

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-26 Thread weiliam.hong
Greetings, I have a fresh installation of OI151a: - SM X8DTH, 12GB RAM, LSI 9211-8i (latest IT-mode firmware) - pool_A : SG ES.2 Constellation (SAS) - pool_B : WD RE4 (SATA) - no settings in /etc/system *zpool status output* --- admin@openindiana:~# zpool status pool: pool_A