[OpenIndiana-discuss] Only one SSD detected on expander

[Scott Marcy]

I am returning the 4 drives I planned to use in the expanders, but will keep the two I'm using as my mirrored boot pool.

My intention was to use these are ZIL and L2ARC drives, so I can do without them for now. I've had very good luck with these Samsung drives in non-SAS usages—quite a bit more reliable in my (admittedly quite limited) experience than the SanForce-based SSDs.

Here's hoping they've fixed this on the 840 Pro models.

Thank you all for your help. I learned something new and now understand why it doesn't work. :-)

-Scott

On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Scott Marcy wrote:
>> 
>> I called Samsung and they basically told me there was nothing they could do. The guy I spoke with said the 830s weren't intended to be used in servers. (He did seem to understand what I was talking about, which was actually more than I expected from simply picking up the phone and getting transferred twice to get to the right department. So at least kudos to Samsung there.)
> 
> Maybe you should try to return these and get your money back. The problem does not seem to be specific to use in a "server".
> 
> The physical block size also seems to be reported incorrectly.
> 
> Samsung cut corners by not taking the time to give each device a unique addressable ID as part of their manufacturing process.  It may even be that a step was "accidentally" skipped in the manufacturing process (to make quotas) and that some devices are correctly configured from the factory while others are not.
> 
> Bob
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