> From: Dave Pooser [mailto:dave...@pooserville.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 12:22 PM > > Sans Digital makes one-- their part number TR4M6GNC, selling at NewEgg for > $134.99. I'd never use one myself, because they seem to be a recipe for > weird flakiness and I/O hangs, and ZFS does not deal well with SATA kinda- > sorta-maybe failure modes. But they exist.
Thanks for pointing that out. Interestingly, the product I was looking at was the Sans Digital ES104T, which is just a chassis power supply, and four ESATA pass-thru cables going to the individual drives. I know ZFS works fine with SATA in general, as long as there isn't some junky SATA chip or driver in the mix. So the flakiness you described might be on a different product, or it might be introduced by the SATA multiplier in that system. The aforementioned ES104T, I would have absolute faith in, because it's literally brainless. ;-) And hence comes with the disadvantage of requiring the 4 separate cables. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
