Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: Do you think it would be a problem having a second sata card in a PCI slot? That would be 8 sata ports in all, since the A-open AK86 motherboard has 2 built in. Or should I swap out the 2prt for the 4 prt. I really only need 2 more prts

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-19 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com skrev: Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: Do you think it would be a problem having a second sata card in a PCI slot? That would be 8 sata ports in all, since the A-open AK86 motherboard has 2 built in. Or should I swap out the 2prt for

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-19 Thread Erik Trimble
Harry Putnam wrote: Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: Do you think it would be a problem having a second sata card in a PCI slot? That would be 8 sata ports in all, since the A-open AK86 motherboard has 2 built in. Or should I swap out the 2prt for the 4 prt. I really only

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-19 Thread Tim Cook
On Monday, April 19, 2010, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net wrote: - Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com skrev: Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: Do you think it would be a problem having a second sata card in a PCI slot?  That would be 8 sata ports in all, since the

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: Since we're talking about an old PCI slot here, I'd say there's really two good options: A SiliconImage Sil3114-based card, which is a 32-bit/66Mhz card, with 4 SATA-1 ports, usually for $25 A Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card, which is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-18 Thread Erik Trimble
Harry Putnam wrote: Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com writes: Bottom line: if you can live without true hot-swap capability (i.e. shutdown the machine to change a drive), then save yourself $75 and go with 2 3114 cards. That sounds like it would do all I need. I currently have

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Tim Cook t...@cook.ms writes: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org writes: On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:57, Günther wrote: hello if you are looking for pci-e (8x), i would recommend sas/sata controller with lsi 1068E

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Tim Cook t...@cook.ms writes: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org writes: On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:57, Günther wrote: hello if you

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-17 Thread Ethan
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 15:19, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Tim Cook t...@cook.ms writes: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org writes:

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 05:36:19PM -0400, Ethan wrote: From wikipedia, PCI is 133 MB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte/s (32-bit at 33 MHz) 266 MB/s (32-bit at 66 MHz or 64-bit at 33 MHz) 533 MB/s (64-bit at 66 MHz) Not quite the 3GB/s hoped for. Not quite, but somewhat closer to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-17 Thread Erik Trimble
Since we're talking about an old PCI slot here, I'd say there's really two good options: A SiliconImage Sil3114-based card, which is a 32-bit/66Mhz card, with 4 SATA-1 ports, usually for $25 A Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card, which is a 64-bit/100Mhz PCI-X card (but will fit and run just fine

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:21 AM, george b...@otenet.gr wrote: hi all im brand new to opensolaris ... feel free to call me noob :) i need to build a home server for media and general storage zfs sound like the perfect solution but i need to buy a 8 (or more) SATA controller any

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Günther
hello if you are looking for pci-e (8x), i would recommend sas/sata controller with lsi 1068E sas chip. they are nearly perfect with opensolaris. you must look for controller with it firmware (jbod mode) not those with raid enabled (ir mode). normally the cheaper variants are the right ones.

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Günther a...@hfg-gmuend.de wrote: hello if you are looking for pci-e (8x), i would recommend sas/sata controller with lsi 1068E sas chip. they are nearly perfect with opensolaris. you must look for controller with it firmware (jbod mode) not those with

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:57, Günther wrote: hello if you are looking for pci-e (8x), i would recommend sas/sata controller with lsi 1068E sas chip. they are nearly perfect with opensolaris. For just a bit more, you can get the LSI SAS 9211-9i card which is 6Gbit/s. It works fine for us, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org writes: On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:57, Günther wrote: hello if you are looking for pci-e (8x), i would recommend sas/sata controller with lsi 1068E sas chip. they are nearly perfect with opensolaris. For just a bit more, you can get the LSI SAS 9211-9i card

Re: [zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Eric D. Mudama edmud...@bounceswoosh.org writes: On Thu, Apr 15 at 23:57, Günther wrote: hello if you are looking for pci-e (8x), i would recommend sas/sata controller with lsi 1068E sas chip. they are nearly

[zfs-discuss] recomend sata controller 4 Home server with zfs raidz2 and 8x1tb hd

2010-04-15 Thread george
hi all im brand new to opensolaris ... feel free to call me noob :) i need to build a home server for media and general storage zfs sound like the perfect solution but i need to buy a 8 (or more) SATA controller any suggestions for compatible 2 opensolaris products will be really