On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 10/25/2012 04:11 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > > On 10/25/2012 04:09 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > >>> > >>> Look for Dell's "6Gbps SAS HBA" cards. They can be had new for <$100 > and > >>> are essentially rebranded LSI 9200-8e cards. Always try to look for OEM > >>> cards with LSI, because buying directly from them is incredibly > >>> expensive. > >> > >> Do these support eSATA? It seems unlikely. > > > > eSATA is just SATA with a different connector - all you need is a cheap > > conversion cable or appropriate eSATA<->SATA bracket, e.g. > > http://www.satacables.com/html/sata-pci-brackets.html > > P.S. if you're going to use a port conversion bracket, I suggest you get > the internal version of the SAS card (i.e. the Dell PERC H200) - that > ships with two SFF-8087 connectors. Get a SFF-8087 breakout cable to > split out the individual SATA connections (e.g. > http://www.ipcdirect.net/catalog/c-sff8087-4sb.jpg ) and just hook those > up to the SATA<->eSATA bracket. From there on you can take it using > standard eSATA cabling directly to your JBOD. > You could also do something like converting an 8087 to an 8088 and get an 8088 <-> 4x eSATA breakout cable. That would save a lot of space in your case if you're going to have more than 8 drives in this rig. Random googling: http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sas_cables_adapters/AD8788-2.asp and http://www.amazon.com/HighPoint-External-Mini-SAS-SFF8088-Ext-MS-1MES/dp/B000JQ51CM or something. > > Cheers, > -- > Saso > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- Patrick Hahn
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