[OpenIndiana-discuss] Opinions on LSI RAID vs. ZFS

[Stefan Müller-Wilken]

Hi Peter,

> You mean HP, not Dell,  I presume.

My bad! You're right, that's obviously HP, not Dell!

> This is where I get a little confused. Why an extra HBA at all - what's
> wrong with using the SAS ports on the system board?


Huh? Do you know the T3-1? I didn't even know there is an option *not* to use an HBA when connecting 8 SAS drives. Take a look at https://wikis.oracle.com/display/SystemsComm/SPARC+T3-1+Server . Is there an on board option at all?

Cheers
 Stefan

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