Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@oracle.com> writes: >> Do you think it would be a problem having a second sata card in a PCI >> slot? That would be 8 sata ports in all, since the A-open AK86 >> motherboard has 2 built in. Or should I swap out the 2prt for the 4 >> prt. I really only need 2 more prts currently, but would be nice to >> have a couple still open for the future. >> > Your PCI bus bandwidth is shared, so it doesn't matter if you use 3 x > 2port cards, or 2 x 4port cards (or, in your case, 1x2port + > 1x4port). Performance is going to be virtually identical.
Thanks. So performance with drop as number of drives increases? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
