Re: [zfs-discuss] [discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-13 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:08:04PM -0500, Peter Tripp wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm in the market for a couple of JBODs. Up until now I've been > relatively lucky with finding hardware that plays very nicely with > ZFS. All my gear currently in production uses LSI SAS controllers > (3801e, 9200-16e

Re: [zfs-discuss] [discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-13 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I've had perfect success with the SuperMicro SC847E25-RJOB1 It has two back planes and holds 45 3.5 inch drives. It's built as a JBOD so it has everything that is needed. On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Peter Tripp wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm in the market for a couple of JBODs. Up until now

Re: [zfs-discuss] [discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-13 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
We've got a SC847E26-RJBOD1. Takes a bit of getting used to that you have to wire it yourself (plus you need to buy a pair of internal SFF-8087 cables to connect the back and front backplanes - incredible SuperMicro doesn't provide those out of the box), but other than that, never had a problem wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] [discuss] Hardware Recommendations: SAS2 JBODs

2012-11-13 Thread Rocky Shek
Peter, You may consider DataON JBOD. Lots of users are using DataON JBOD for ZFS storage. Yes, LSI SAS HBA is the best choice for ZFS DataON DNS-1600 4U 24 Bay 6G SAS JBOD http://dataonstorage.com/dns-1600 DataON DNS-1640 2U 24 Bay 6G SAS JBOD http://dataonstorage.com/dns-1640 DataON DNS-1660