[OpenIndiana-discuss] [smartos-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

Ian Collins ian at ianshome.com
Mon Nov 19 03:24:51 UTC 2012


On 11/19/12 16:10, Paul B. Henson wrote:

>> I use an LSI 2911 which uses the well supported 2008 chip.
> Hmm, I don't see any of those for sale, and google's not being much
> help. Is that an older card? Maybe it's been discontinued and replaced
> with a new model.

I was looking at the box upside down, it's a 9211-8i....

>> I used a couple of Crucial M4 drives for the ARC and Intel 311s for the ZIL.
> Looks like the 311 is EOL, replaced by the 313. SLC flash for
> durability, nice, but I couldn't find anything that says whether or not
> the 313 has a supercapacitor to flush the write cache on unexpected
> power failure.

They don't unfortunately.

-- 
Ian.




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