[OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

Jason J. W. Williams jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com
Wed Oct 26 22:12:59 UTC 2011


Hi James,

> I would use the path of least resistance: install two controllers, one
> dedicated for SATA (if you must have SATA drives), and the other
> dedicated for SAS.

We've generally used only SAS for our ZFS pools, and will continue to
do so. However, we're looking at adding some SSDs and those are almost
exclusively SATA. Do folks see issues mixing SATA SSDs as cache and
log devices in with SAS disk for hybrid storage pools?

-J



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