> I have Supermicro 936E1 (X28 expander chip) and LSI > 1068 HBA. I never got timeout issue but I'm using > Seagate 15K.7 SAS. SATA might be different as it > handles error and io timeout differently. If you > still want volume, you make take a look at 7200 RPM > SAS version. SAS disks more expensive. Besides, there is no 2Tb SAS 7200 drives on market yet.
> If you can wait, better wait for 6Gb SAS expander > based product. Do you think it make sense if we will use SATA2 (300Gbit) disks? I heard there were problems with SAS1 expanders in Supermicro chassis, after they come out. Don't want to debug new product. > BTW. I'd get Supermicro X8DTH-6F motherboard as this > gives enough expansion slots. Thanks for the tip about motherboard. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
