I bought similar kit from them, but when I received the machine, uninstalled, I looked at the install manual for the Areca card and found that it's a manual driver add that is documented to _occasionally hang_ and you have to _kill it off manually_ if it does. I'm really not having that in a production server, so as soon as I saw this, I asked them (SiMech) for an alternative, production worthy solution, but they've not yet responded at all (after three emailings). The pre-sale communication, however, was superb. Perhaps this sort of driver munging behaviour is perfectly acceptable in the ms/linux world and they therefore think I'm being too fussy? Hmm.
Anyway, to get this Areca card as far away from me as possible, I plan to either go with a small zfs CompactFlash array on the mobo ide channels (or) just use one channel of each of my two supermicro/marvell boards. Any opinions out there on that plan, btw? This is slated to be a first tier production file/iscsi server (!).. Sorry if this is drifting too far off topic, but I really would have appreciated this sort of info when searching for a zfs hw solution smaller than thumper. That said, why, oh why, does Sun not offer a Niagara board on a 16 disk chassis for $10000 for our little corner of the market? Dealing with the concept of using PCs in production has been absolutely horrifying thus far. thx jake On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Blake Irvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are currently using the 2-port Areca card SilMech offers for boot, and 2 > of the Supermicro/Marvell cards for our array. Silicon Mechanics gave us > great support and burn-in testing for Solaris 10. Talk to a sales rep there > and I don't think you will be disappointed. > > cheers, > Blake > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > 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
