> Areca makes excellent PCI express cards - but probably have zero > support in Solaris/OpenSolaris. I use them in both Windows and Linux. > Works natively in FreeBSD too. They're the fastest cards on the market > I believe still. > > However probably not very appropriate for this since it's a Solaris-based OS > :(
We've got two Areca ARC-1261ML cards (PCI-E x8, up to 16 SATA disks each) running a 12TB zpool on snv54 and Areca's arcmsr driver. They're a bit of an expensive/over-the-top solution since the cards do hardware RAID-6 and cost roughly $1k each, but we're just using them as JBOD controllers. The hardware RAID-6 capability will be a nice backup if we ever ditch Solaris/ZFS but I can't see that happening any time soon; ZFS is just too good. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
