> I plan on removing the second USAS-L8i and connect > all 16 drives to the > first USAS-L8i when I need more storage capacity. I > have no doubt that > it will work as intended. I will report to the list > otherwise.
I'm a little late to the party here. First, I'd like to thank those pioneers who came before me and found this board works fine. I have two of them on order for a server I'm putting together. I'm curious about this connecting all 16 drives bit. I read that the controller will handle up to 122 drives, but short of a lot of extra, expensive hardware, I have no idea how that is accomplished. How are you intending to connect 16 drives to the two SAS ports on the controller? On a slightly different but related topic, anyone have advice on how to connect up my drives? I've got room for 20 pool drives in the case. I'll have two AOC-USAS-L8i cards along with cables to connect 16 SATA2 drives. The motherboard has 6 SATA2 connectors plus 2 SATA3 connectors. I was planning to use the SATA3 connectors for the boot drives (hopefully mirrored ZFS). Initially I'll have three 2TB drives with the intention of using raidz1 on them. Phase 2 will be three more 2TB drives. Phase 3 will be three 1.5TB drives. (I already have most of the drives for phase 2 and 3.) I'll probably fill the rest with a JBOD pool of assorted drives I have lying around. I'm specifically wondering if I'll see better performance by spreading the raidz1 array devices across the controllers or if I should keep an array to a single controller as much as possible. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
