[OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

[Jason J. W. Williams]

>
> There's lots of opinions on SAS expanders, and the general consensus
> seems to be "if you can avoid the complication, doso".
>

That's pretty much our view. We've had issues with LSI, PMC and Marvell
expanders. Less so with the LSI and PMC but still not low enough to be
comfortable. Once nice thing about having 3 SAS HBAs, is we've been able to
dedicate the right-most HBA to SATA (SSD) and put SAS in the rest of the
slots.

-J