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List:       zfs-discuss
Subject:    Re: [zfs-discuss] 24-port SATA controller options?
From:       "Jacob Ritorto" <jacob.ritorto () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-06-30 15:10:03
Message-ID: 1f3f8f1d0806300810i786b3a72u8106b3bd3861294b () mail ! gmail ! com
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I bought similar kit from them, but when I received the machine,
uninstalled, I looked at the install manual for the Areca card and
found that it's a manual driver add that is documented to
_occasionally hang_ and you have to _kill it off manually_ if it does.
 I'm really not having that in a production server, so as soon as I
saw this, I asked them (SiMech) for an alternative, production worthy
solution, but they've not yet responded at all (after three
emailings).  The pre-sale communication, however, was superb.  Perhaps
this sort of driver munging behaviour is perfectly acceptable in the
ms/linux world and they therefore think I'm being too fussy?  Hmm.

Anyway, to get this Areca card as far away from me as possible, I plan
to either go with a small zfs CompactFlash array on the mobo ide
channels (or) just use one channel of each of my two
supermicro/marvell boards.

Any opinions out there on that plan, btw?  This is slated to be a
first tier production file/iscsi server (!)..

Sorry if this is drifting too far off topic, but I really would have
appreciated this sort of info when searching for a zfs hw solution
smaller than thumper.

 That said, why, oh why, does Sun not offer a Niagara board on a 16
disk chassis for $10000 for our little corner of the market?  Dealing
with the concept of using PCs in production has been absolutely
horrifying thus far.

thx
jake


On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Blake Irvin <blake.irvin@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are currently using the 2-port Areca card SilMech offers for boot, and 2 of the \
> Supermicro/Marvell cards for our array.  Silicon Mechanics gave us great support \
> and burn-in testing for Solaris 10.  Talk to a sales rep there and I don't think \
> you will be disappointed. 
> cheers,
> Blake
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