Okay, so this SuperMicro AOC-USAS-L8i is an "SAS" card? I've never done SAS; is it essentially a controller as flexible as SCSI that then talks to SATA disks out the back?
Amazon seems to be the only obvious place to buy it (Newegg and Tiger Direct have nothing). And do I understand that it doesn't come with the cables it needs? And that what I need are SAS-to-4-SATA breakout cables? And that those m*f* b*ds cost $30 or so each and I'll need two of them? Bloody connector conspiracy. So I'd better open the system out and measure a bunch of things, because I need to make sure I can reach everything I need to reach (this is an oversize case, it's actually a 4u rackmount up on end, and it's full rack depth, so the distance from motherboard to drives can be significant). I'm up over $450 for a "simple" upgrade (that includes the 4x2.5"-in-5.2"-bay box, controller, 2x 7200rpm enterprise 2.5" drives, controller, cables, and a 2GB memory upgrade) at best-mainstream-retailer mailorder prices. The dratted drives are four times the size I need, too; nobody carries the 80GB enterprise models, which are only two times the size I need. The 160GB enterprise are only $7 each more expensive than the 80GB consumer models, though. Weird world.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
