This opens up a whole new dialog now... I believe FreeBSD has a lot better eSATA port multiplier support. Would anyone here think it's a bad idea to get something like a Highpoint card (http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Highpoint%20Technologies/RR2314/) and chain 4x eSATA 4 or 5 drive enclosures off of it (for a total of 16 or 20 drives per PCI-e/PCI-X card)?
Obviously there's a couple things to investigate: #1 ZFS stability in FreeBSD - it sounds like this is decent though for basic tasks (I'd be using it for basic file storage - all of my home data files and server backups, export it using samba for Windows and NFS for *nix clients) #2 ZFS + FreeBSD + the controller - would there be any weirdness based on the hardware used? #3 FreeBSD + the controller compatibility - assuming the controller supports the port multipliers I don't know if anyone subscribing is using port multipler eSATA with FreeBSD (perhaps I will hunt down people on a FreeBSD list, to clarify #3) I'd like it to be PCI express based. PCI-x is only on normal-sized motherboards, and I'd love to be using a smaller form factor machine as the "head" unit for ZFS. Thanks, mike _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
