On 10/25/2012 04:11 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 10/25/2012 04:09 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >>> >>> Look for Dell's "6Gbps SAS HBA" cards. They can be had new for <$100 and >>> are essentially rebranded LSI 9200-8e cards. Always try to look for OEM >>> cards with LSI, because buying directly from them is incredibly >>> expensive. >> >> Do these support eSATA? It seems unlikely. > > eSATA is just SATA with a different connector - all you need is a cheap > conversion cable or appropriate eSATA<->SATA bracket, e.g. > http://www.satacables.com/html/sata-pci-brackets.html
P.S. if you're going to use a port conversion bracket, I suggest you get the internal version of the SAS card (i.e. the Dell PERC H200) - that ships with two SFF-8087 connectors. Get a SFF-8087 breakout cable to split out the individual SATA connections (e.g. http://www.ipcdirect.net/catalog/c-sff8087-4sb.jpg ) and just hook those up to the SATA<->eSATA bracket. From there on you can take it using standard eSATA cabling directly to your JBOD. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
