Hi; You are right that J series do not have nvram onboard. However most Jbods like HPS's MSA series have some nvram. The idea behind not using nvram on the Jbod's is
-) There is no use to add limited ram to a JBOD as disks already have a lot of cache. -) It's easy to design a redundant Jbod without nvram. If you have nvram and need redundancy you need to design more complex HW and more complex firmware -) Bateries are the first thing to fail -) Servers already have too much ram Best regards Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +902123352222 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Albert Chin Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 9:04 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:49:26AM -0700, Ben B. wrote: > According to the Sun Handbook, there is a new array : > SAS interface > 12 disks SAS or SATA > > ZFS could be used nicely with this box. Doesn't seem to have any NVRAM storage on board, so seems like JBOD. > There is an another version called > J4400 with 24 disks. > > Doc is here : > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/j4200 -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
