On 2014-02-09 22:35, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
I don't know if it affects your setup, but I thought the 9211 was 6Gbps SAS
only, and 3Gbps SATA. Are your disks SAS? I'm not familiar with any drives
that WD makes being SAS, but maybe it was just the environment I was in
didn't use them.

Well, WD nowadays makes a lot of drives. HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital
for the past year or two, as I learned while shopping for this box ;)

As for the controller speeds... I did not see such information about
the speed limits, so I can take your words "as is". Anyhow, this is
the setup which works with no hiccups and I am content with it. Much
better than that older attempt, which was a decent PC and I've spent
years with it (working, coding, playing, etc.) - but happened to be
a disgrace of a server, which managed to keep losing data even with
ZFS underneath. Although, trying to unravel those mysteries is what
got me onto the illumos/OI/zfs lists, and did provide lots of learning
experience about how things are made "under the hood". Not all is bad :)

Thanks,
//Jim


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