On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> 2012-04-08 6:06, Richard Elling wrote:
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>> You can't get past the age-old idiom: you get what you pay for.
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> True... but it can be somewhat countered with DrHouse-age idiom:
> people lie, even if they don't mean to ;)
I think both aspe
> Out of curiosity, are there any third-party hardware vendors
> that make server/storage chassis (Supermicro et al) who make
> SATA backplanes with the SAS interposers soldered on?
There doesn't seem to be much out there, though I haven't looked.
> Would that make sense, or be cheaper/more reli
Sorry for the off topic post, but I figure there is experience
here. I have a total of ten J4400 chassis all loaded with SATA drives.
Has anyone noticed a tendency for drives in specific slots to fail
more often than others? I have seen more drive failures in slot 20
than any other. I am wonder
On Apr 9, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Paul Kraus wrote:
>Sorry for the off topic post, but I figure there is experience
> here. I have a total of ten J4400 chassis all loaded with SATA drives.
> Has anyone noticed a tendency for drives in specific slots to fail
> more often than others? I have seen more
richard.ell...@richardelling.com said:
> We are starting to see a number of SAS HDDs that prefer logical-block to
> round-robin. I see this with late model Seagate and Toshiba HDDs.
>
> There is another, similar issue with recognition of multipathing by the
> scsi_vhci driver. Both of these are be
Are these issues something to watch out for on Solaris 11 as well? Thx in
advance…
-Anh
On Apr 9, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Marion Hakanson wrote:
> richard.ell...@richardelling.com said:
>> We are starting to see a number of SAS HDDs that prefer logical-block to
>> round-robin. I see this with late
