Hi David, Glad to help! I don't want to bad-mouth the X2100 M2s that much, because they have been solid. I believe the M2s are made/designed just for Sun by Quanta Computer (http://www.quanta.com.tw/e_default.htm) whereas the mobos in the original X2100 was Tyan Tiger with some slight modifications. That all being said, the problem is that Nvidia chipset. The MCP55 in the X2100 M2 is an alright chipset, the nForce 4 Pro just had bugs.
Best Regards, Jason On 1/22/07, David J. Orman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi David, > > Depending on the I/O you're doing the X4100/X4200 are > much better > suited because of the dual HyperTransport buses. As a > storage box with > GigE outputs you've got a lot more I/O capacity with > two HT buses than > one. That plus the X4100 is just a more solid box. That much makes sense, thanks for clearing that up. > The X2100 M2 while > a vast improvement over the X2100 in terms of > reliability and > features, is still an OEM'd whitebox. We use the > X2100 M2s for > application servers, but for anything that needs > solid reliability or > I/O we go Galaxy. Ahh. That explains a lot. Thank you once again! Sounds like the X2* is the red-headed stepchild of Sun's product line. They should slap disclaimers up on the product information pages so we know better than to purchase into something that doesn't fully function. Still unclear on the SAS/SATA solutions, but hopefully that'll progress further now in the thread. Cheers, David This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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