Re: [zfs-discuss] Building big cheap storage system. What hardware to use?

2010-01-28 Thread borov
Hello. Thanks for config, but Chenbro badly widespread here, in Russia. As for 3Ware RAID cards i think better get "dumb" HBA cards and let ZFS do all work. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building big cheap storage system. What hardware to use?

2010-01-28 Thread borov
SAS disks more expensive. Besides, there is no 2Tb SAS 7200 drives on market yet. Seagate released a 2 TB SAS drive last year. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&vgnextoid=c7712f655373f110VgnVCM10f5ee0a0aRCRD Yes, it was announced. But it is not available in Russia yet.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Building big cheap storage system. What hardware to use?

2010-01-27 Thread borov
> I have Supermicro 936E1 (X28 expander chip) and LSI > 1068 HBA. I never got timeout issue but I'm using > Seagate 15K.7 SAS. SATA might be different as it > handles error and io timeout differently. If you > still want volume, you make take a look at 7200 RPM > SAS version. SAS disks more expensi

[zfs-discuss] Building big cheap storage system. What hardware to use?

2010-01-27 Thread borov
Hello. We need big "cheap" storage. Looking to Supermicro systems. Something based on SC846E1-R900 case http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846E1-R900.cfm with 24 disc bays. This case with 3 GBit LSI SASX36 expander. But the problem with LSI based HBA timeouts really confuses me