I use the on board LSI-SAS2008 card on the Tyan S5512WGM2NR motherboard. I do not think they make it any more but it works great. If did have a Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8I UIO card. It is easily adapted to a standard case, just a couple motherboard standoffs and a card bracket from a normal card (I used an old nic bracket, not worried about the small hole). That is a cheap way to get an LSI-SAS2008 card, $100 less than an LSI 9211-8i which it is equal to.
The expander card is an Intel RES2SV240 card which was the cheapest I could find that was based on the LSI-SAS2x24 chipset. And hot-swap is the bomb, so make sure you get that because having to shut down to replace a drive is not cool (I have not shut off my server in a long time, even with the drive failures). Cheers, On Jan 2, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Roman Naumenko <ro...@naumenko.ca> wrote: > David Scharbach said the following, on 02-01-14 1:53 PM: >> Supermicro may bit a bit overkill for the home server :) Although I have >> considered it for myself at home… We used them where I used to work and >> they are pretty nice for the money. >> >> For myself, I opted to go with the Norco 4220, a Tyan MB with an integral >> LSI-2008 based HBA, LSI based intel SAS expander card, 16GB of ECC, a low >> end xeon and 13 3TB cheap seagate HDDs. This setup allows for 20 hot swap >> bays connected to the SAS card, 2 2.5” SSDs connected to the MB via SATA for >> cache/zil and a slim optical drive with a spare SAS channel that I could use >> to connect to an external JBOD enclosure if needed. My drives have seen a >> maximum temp of 39C and that is when doing a full scrub with the server in >> my utility room in winter (furnace is on, heats the room up). >> >> I agree that cheap HDDs suck, I have returned 3 of them in a little over a >> year but ZFS and SMART are awesome at detecting early troubles. Just had >> another bark at me for uncorrectable sector errors. Resilvering my RaidZ2 >> production array does take a long time, but I have a RaidZ1 backup array so >> I would have to lose 5 of 13 drives at the same time to affect all my data. >> Nice part is I can still add 7 more drives to the case if needed. > There are number of option if you want to assemble something like a storage > server, but it's all limited if you want to connect a JBOD to an existing > server. > By limited I mean the cost going to be >= original equipment. > > Which card did you use by the way? > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
