On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:01:36PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote: > On May 28, 2008, at 05:11, James Andrewartha wrote: > > That's not a huge price difference when building a server - thanks > for the pointer. Are there any 'gotchas' the list can offer when > using a SAS card with SATA drives? I've been told that SATA drives > can have a lower MTBF than SAS drives (by a guy working QA for > BigDriveCo), but ZFS helps keep the I in RAID.
I'm running 3 (used to be 4, but I repurposed that drive) 500GB Seagate SATA disks on an LSI SAS3080X in a RAIDZ1 pool in my Ultra80 and it's been working great. The only 'gothca' that I can think of is the loss of the ability to run more than one drive per channel, but I guess I can live with that. :) I got my SAS3080X for, uhm, let's see, including shipping and the SAS to 4 cable SATA breakout cable, it was less than $100 off of ebay, probably closer to $80. I don't know prices on the PCIe version of those cards on ebay though. Probably more expensive as everyone wants PCIe these days. -brian -- "Coding in C is like sending a 3 year old to do groceries. You gotta tell them exactly what you want or you'll end up with a cupboard full of pop tarts and pancake mix." -- IRC User (http://www.bash.org/?841435) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
