On May 16, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello James, > > >>> 2) Does anyone have experiance with the 2540? > > JCM> Kinda. I worked on adding MPxIO support to the mpt driver so > JCM> we could support the SAS version of this unit - the ST2530. > > JCM> What sort of experience are you after? I'ver never used one > JCM> of these boxes in production - only ever for benchmarking and > JCM> bugfixing :-) I think Robert Milkowski might have one or two > JCM> of them, however. > > > Yeah, I do have several of them (both 2530 and 2540).
we did a try and buy of the 2510,2530 and 2540. > > > 2530 (SAS) - cables tend to pop-out sometimes when you are around > servers... then MPxIO does not work properly if you just hot-unplug > and hot-replug the sas cable... there is still 2TB LUN size limit > IIRC... other than that generally it is a good value Yeah the sff-8088 connectors are a bit rigid and clumsy, but the performance was better than everything we tested in the 2500 series. > > > 2540 (FC) - 2TB LUN size limit IIRC, other than that it is a good > value array > Echo. We like the 2540 as well, and will be buying lots of them shortly. > > > -- > Best regards, > Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://milek.blogspot.com > -Andy > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
