Im using the AOC card with 8 SATA-2 ports too. It got detected automatically during Solaris install. Works great. And it is cheap. Ive heard that it is the same chipset as used in X4500 thumper with 48 drives?
In a PCI, the PCI bottle necks at ~150MB/sec, or so. In a PCI-X slot, you will reach something like 1.5GB/sec which should suffice for most needs. Maybe it is cheaper to buy that card + PCI-X motherboard (only found on server mobos) than buying a SAS or PCI-express, if you want to achieve speed? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
