On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Lanky Doodle <lanky_doo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. > > I ruled out the SAS2008 controller as my motherboard is only PCIe 1.0 so > would not have been able to make the most of the difference in increased > bandwidth.
Only PCIe 1.0? What chipset is that based on? Might be worthwhile to upgrade as I believe Solaris power-management has a fairly recent cutoff in terms of processor support when it comes to power-management. (AMD Family 16 or better, Intel Nehalem or newer is what I've been told). PCIe 2.0 has been around for quite awhile, PCIe 3.0 will be making an appearance on Ivy Bridge CPUs (and has already been announced by FPGA vendors), but I'm fairly confident that graphics cards will be the first target market to utilize that. Another thing to consider is that you could buy the SAS2008-based cards and move them from motherboard to motherboard for the foreseeable future (copper PCI Express isn't going anywhere for a long time). Don't kneecap yourself because of your current mobo. --khd _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
