[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 10, Issue 60

[Hans J. Albertsson]

Of course: just me being sloppy: I am looking for a card that runs off 
the fastest possible i/f on the X7BSi MB

PCI-Express, absolutely.


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> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 17:53:25 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk<roy at karlsbakk.net>
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
> 	interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
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>>> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:35:05 +0200 (CEST)
>>> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk<roy at karlsbakk.net>
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>>> 	<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
>>> 	interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
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>>>> Can anyone suggest a good and reliable eSATA PCI interface for a
>>>> Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? Preferably 4 or 6 eSATA ports
>>>>
>>>> To be used in a RaidZ2 config with 8 or 10 2TB relatively cheap
>>>> disks.
>>>> 4 connected to the MB SATA II ports, and 4 or 6 on the external.
>>> Any particular reason for not using SAS with this? LSI 1068 work
>>> well and are affordable if not cheap. They only support 3Gbps SAS,
>>> but then, you probably won't need more. The LSI 1068E has external
>>> connectors.
>> An LSI 1068 is a chip, not a PCI card.
> Sure, but there are several cheap boards using it.
>
> Btw, are you sure you want a PCI card, not a PCI Express card?
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> Vennlige hilsener / Best regards
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> From: "Dan Swartzendruber"<dswartz at druber.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
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> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:roy at karlsbakk.net]
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI interface
> for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:35:05 +0200 (CEST)
>>> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk<roy at karlsbakk.net>
>>> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
>>> 	<openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
>>> 	interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
>>> Message-ID:<31113433.0.1306665305717.JavaMail.root at zimbra>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>>
>>>> Can anyone suggest a good and reliable eSATA PCI interface for a
>>>> Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? Preferably 4 or 6 eSATA ports
>>>>
>>>> To be used in a RaidZ2 config with 8 or 10 2TB relatively cheap
>>>> disks.
>>>> 4 connected to the MB SATA II ports, and 4 or 6 on the external.
>>> Any particular reason for not using SAS with this? LSI 1068 work
>>> well and are affordable if not cheap. They only support 3Gbps SAS,
>>> but then, you probably won't need more. The LSI 1068E has external
>>> connectors.
>> An LSI 1068 is a chip, not a PCI card.
> Sure, but there are several cheap boards using it.
>
> Btw, are you sure you want a PCI card, not a PCI Express card?
>
> *** Good point.  It isn't hard to saturate the PCI bus nowadays...
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