[OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

[Jordan McQuown]

Newisys is what we're using now and everything seems to be going smoothly.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Matthews [jason at broken.net]
Received: Saturday, 25 Aug 2012, 2:26pm
To: 'Discussion list for OpenIndiana' [openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org]
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice



> I can say from experience chaining supermicro sas chassis with any type of
> disk can be a recipe for disaster. Lsiutil reported a couple million
> errors in a couple months time which eventually led to some sort of
> contention and corruption on both sides of our mirrors. These were
> also SAS and not sata disks.


I use newisys nds-2240 chassis. They were designed to be replacements for
the 620j, which left a vaccum in the market when LSI sold off its chassis
division to netapp.

The devices work flawlessly. I use them in an all sas environment. I put the
sata based l2arc disks on a separate controller, on a passive midplane, in
the server chassis.

If you buy the disks from newisys/sanima-sc, they'll even burn the drives in
so you can avoid infant mortality.

It has been a very smooth ride.

j.