I don't presently have any working x86 hardware, nor do I routinely work with x86 hardware configurations.
But it's not hard to find previous discussion on the subject: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=96790 for example... Also, remember that SAS controllers can usually also talk to SATA drives; they're usually more expensive of course, but sometimes you can find a deal. I have a LSI SAS 3800x, and I paid a heck of a lot less than list for it (eBay), I'm guessing because someone bought the bulk package and sold off whatever they didn't need (new board, sealed, but no docs). That was a while ago, and being around US $100, it might still not have been what you'd call cheap. If you want < $50, you might have better luck looking at the earlier discussion. But I suspect to some extent you get what you pay for; the throughput on the higher-end boards may well be a good bit higher, although for one disk (or even two, to mirror the system disk), it might not matter so much. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
