On January 19, 2007 5:59:13 PM -0800 "David J. Orman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
card that supports SAS would be *ideal*,
Except that SAS support on Solaris is not very good.
One major problem is they treat it like scsi when instead they should
treat it like FC (or native SATA).
So, anybody have any good suggestions for these two things:
# 1 - SAS/SATA PCI-E card that would work with the Sun X2200M2.
I had the lsilogic 3442-E working on x86 but not reliably. That is
the only SAS controller Sun supports AFAIK.
# 2 - Rack-mountable external enclosure for SAS/SATA drives, supporting
# hot swap of drives.
promise vtrak j300s is the cheapest one i've found. adaptec's been
advertising one forever (6+ months?) but it's not in production, at
least you won't be able to find one without hard drives, and you
won't be able to find the dual controller model.
Basically, I'm trying to get around using Sun's extremely expensive
storage solutions while waiting on them to release something reasonable
now that ZFS exists.
thumper (x4500) seems pretty reasonable ($/GB).
-frank
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