On 25/01/2011, at 19.04, Philip Brown wrote: > So, another hardware question :) > > ZFS has been touted as taking maximal advantage of disk hardware, to the > point where it can be used efficiently and cost-effectively on JBODs, rather > than having to throw more expensive RAID arrays at it. > > Only trouble is.. JBODs seem to have disappeared :( > Sun/Oracle has discontinued its j4000 line, with no replacement that I can > see. > > IBM seems to have some nice looking hardware in the form of its EXP3500 > "expansion trays"... but they only support it connected to an IBM (SAS) > controller... which is only supported when plugged into IBM server hardware :( > > Any other suggestions for (large-)enterprise-grade, supported JBOD hardware > for ZFS these days? > Either fibre or SAS would be okay. > --
I'd go with some Dell MD1200's, for us they ended up being cheaper (incl disks) than a SuperMicro case with the same model disks, and it's way nicer than the low-quality SuperMicro stuff. It works perfectly fine with LSI 9200-8e SAS2 controllers under Solaris. The SuperMicro boxes won't do multi-pathing to the same LSI 9200-8e controller. - Lasse _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
