Frank Middleton <f.middle...@apogeect.com> writes: > It's even worse if you have an old SPARC system. We've had great results > with some LSI LOGIC SAS3041XL-S cards we got on E-Bay in conjunction > with 3x1.5TB Seagate drives, for 2.7TiB of raidz. The combination proved > faster than mirrored 10,000 RPM SCSI disks using UFS, in an unscientific > benchmark (bonnie). I don't think this LSI controller is SATA II, but > it has no problems with the 1.5TB Seagates; they are Sun branded cards > and worked right of of the box in 3.3V 66MHz PCI slots. 2.7TiB of raidz > for around $400. Amazing... And ZFS is just plain incredible - makes > every other file system look so antiquated :-) > > Hope this helps -- Frank
This looks really promising, scouting around on ebay I see one has sold for $62 us. Not too bad. I'll keep that item name on file. I've already bought a sil3114 chip card off ebay ($20 us) yesterday so I'll see how I fare on that first. I'm told it will recognize sata II if you flash it to latest bios update. I'm not sure but that may also be possible with the card I'm having the trouble with. (Adaptec 1205sa) which is Sil3112a chip. I'll have to install it on a windows machine... since my Osol server has no floppy drive. Hehe, I plan to open up my wifes machine to do it. (Shes gone for the day or the fight would be on) Of course, soon as I bought it I saw another site selling the same card for $18 us... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
