Hi, Does anyone know of a reliable 2 or 4 port SATA card with a solid driver, that plugs into a PCIe slot, so that I can benefit from the high read speeds available from adding a couple of SSDs to form my ZFS root/boot pool? (Each SSD is capable of reading at around 150-200 MBytes/sec)
After initially thinking I would move my existing 6-drive RAID-Z2 array to a new 8-port SATA controller, I finally decided to leave the drives connected to the motherboard SATA ports, and instead to get an additional smaller SATA card to allow me to connect 2 boot drives to form a mirror. For anyone considering a controller card to support 8 SATA drives, see this thread which has got some great comments from people experienced with using these larger cards. No doubt I will refer to it again when I build another storage system one day :) See: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106210 Thanks, Simon http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
