On 07/31/09 06:12 PM, Jorgen Lundman wrote:
Finding a SATA card that would work with Solaris, and be hot-swap, and
more than 4 ports, sure took a while. Oh and be reasonably priced ;)
Let's take this first point; "card that works with Solaris...."
I might try to find some engineers to write device drivers to
improve this situation.
Would this alias be interested in teaching me which 3 or 4 cards they would
put at the top of the "wish list" for Solaris support?
I assume the current feature gap is defined as needing driver support
for PCI-express add-in cards that have 4 to 8 ports inexpensive
JBOD, not expensive HW RAID, and can handle hot-swap while running OS.
Would this be correct?
Neal
Double the price of the dual core Atom did not seem right.
The SATA card was a close fit to the jumper were the power-switch
cable attaches, as you can see in one of the photos. This is because
the MV8 card is quite long, and has the big plastic SATA sockets. It
does fit, but it was the tightest spot.
I also picked the 5-in-3 drive cage that had the "shortest" depth
listed, 190mm. For example the Supermicro M35T is 245mm, another 5cm.
Not sure that would fit.
Lund
Nathan Fiedler wrote:
Yes, please write more about this. The photos are terrific and I
appreciate the many useful observations you've made. For my home NAS I
chose the Chenbro ES34069 and the biggest problem was finding a
SATA/PCI card that would work with OpenSolaris and fit in the case
(technically impossible without a ribbon cable PCI adapter). After
seeing this, I may reconsider my choice.
For the SATA card, you mentioned that it was a close fit with the case
power switch. Would removing the backplane on the card have helped?
Thanks
n
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Jorgen Lundman<lund...@gmo.jp> wrote:
I have assembled my home RAID finally, and I think it looks rather
good.
http://www.lundman.net/gallery/v/lraid5/p1150547.jpg.html
Feedback is welcome.
I have yet to do proper speed tests, I will do so in the coming week
should
people be interested.
Even though I have tried to use only existing, and cheap, parts the
end sum
became higher than I expected. Final price is somewhere in the
47,000 yen
range. (Without hard disks)
If I were to make and sell these, they would be 57,000 or so, so I
do not
really know if anyone would be interested. Especially since SOHO NAS
devices
seem to start around 80,000.
Anyway, sure has been fun.
Lund
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