On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I see Sun finally updated the Thumper, and it appears they're now using > a PCI-E backplane. Anyone happen to know what the chipset is? Any chance > we'll see an 8-port PCI-E SATA card finally?? > > "The new Sun Fire X4540 server uses PCI Express IO technology for more than > triple the system IO-to-network bandwidth." > > http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/
Any word on why PCI-Express was not extended to the expansion slots? I put PCI-Express cards in every other server that I connect to 10 gigabit Ethernet or the SAN (FC tape drives). -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
