Bill McGonigle wrote: > On May 28, 2008, at 05:11, James Andrewartha wrote: > > >> From what I can tell, all the vendors are only making SAS >> controllers for >> PCIe with more than 4 ports. Since SAS supports SATA, I guess they >> don't see >> much point in doing SATA-only controllers. >> >> For example, the LSI SAS3081E-R is $260 for 8 SAS ports on 8x PCIe, >> which is >> somewhat more expensive than the almost equivalent PCI-X LSI >> SAS3080X-R >> which is as low as $180. >> > > That's not a huge price difference when building a server - thanks > for the pointer. Are there any 'gotchas' the list can offer when > using a SAS card with SATA drives? I've been told that SATA drives > can have a lower MTBF than SAS drives (by a guy working QA for > BigDriveCo), but ZFS helps keep the I in RAID. >
There are BigDriveCos which sell enterprise-class SATA drives. Since the mechanics are the same, the difference is in the electronics and software. Vote with your pocketbook for the enterprise-class products. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
