Re: [zfs-discuss] Nice chassis for ZFS server

2007-12-08 Thread Mick Russom
Are there benchmarks somewhere showing a RAID10 implemented on an LSI card with, say, 128MB of cache being beaten in terms of performance by a similar zraid configuration with no cache on the drive controller? Somehow I don't think they exist. I'm all for data scrubbing, but this anti-raid-card

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nice chassis for ZFS server

2007-11-13 Thread Mick Russom
>Internal drives suck. If you go through the trouble of putting in a >drive, at least make it hot pluggable. They are all hot-swappable/pluggable on the the SSR212MC2. There are two additional internal 2.5" SAS bonus drives that arent, but the front 12 are. I for one think external enclosures ar

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nice chassis for ZFS server

2007-11-13 Thread Mick Russom
Sun did something like this with the v60 and v65 servers, and they should do it again with the SSR212MC2. The heart of the SAS subsystem of the SSR212MC2 is the SRCSAS144E . This card is interfacing with a Vitesse VSC410 SAS-expander and is plugged into a S5000PSL motherboard. This card is cl