> I know it seems ridiculous to HAVE to buy a 3rd party > card, but come > on it is only $50 or so. Assuming you don't need > both pci slots for > other uses.
I do. Two would have gone to external access for a JBOD (if that ever gets sorted out, haha) - most external adapters seem to support 4 disks. > I personally wouldn't want to deal with "PC" hardware > suppliers directly. Neither would I, hence looking to Sun. :) > Putting together and maintaining those kinds of > systems is a PITA. Well, the Supermicro and Tyan systems generally are not. > The > $50 is worth it. Assuming it will work. Herein lies the problem, more following... > Especially > under the startup > program you're going to have as good or better prices > from Sun, With the program, the prices are still more than I would pay from Supermicro/Tyan, but they are acceptably higher as the integration/support would be much better, of course. Except, this does not seem the case on the X2* series. > and > good support. Here is the big problem. I'd be buying a piece of Sun hardware specifically for this reason, already paying more (even with the startup essentials program) - but do you think Sun is going to support that SAS/SATA controller I bought? If something doesn't work, or later gets broken (for example, the driver disappears/breaks in a later version of Solaris) - what will I do then? Nothing. :) Might as well buy whitebox if I'm going to build the system out in a whitebox-way. ;) I'd much prefer Sun products, however - I just expect them to support Sun's flagship OS, and be supported fully. I'm going to look into the X4* series assuming they don't have such problems with supported boot disk mirroring/hot plugging/etc. Thanks, David This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
