If your worried about the bandwidth limitations of putting something like the supermicro card in a pci slot how about using an active riser card to convert from PCI-E to PCI-X. One of these, or something similar:
http://www.tyan.com/product_accessories_spec.aspx?pid=26 on sale at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OH5J9G?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=nextag-ce-tier2-20&linkCode=asn I'm sure you can find something similar for less, and I have seen ones that go from PCI-E x16 to several PCI-X as well. That and the supermicro are under half the price of the cheapest LSI PCI-E card. Lee This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
