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

[Peter Tribble]

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken <
stefan.mueller-wilken at acando.de> wrote:

> 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?
>

I've got them here. 16-drive variant. There are 2 LSI 2008
embedded controllers on the motherboard. The only HBAs
I have in the boxes are for fibre.

(You won't see an on-board option, as it's not optional.)

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