[OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

[David Scharbach]

I use the on board LSI-SAS2008 card on the Tyan S5512WGM2NR motherboard.  I do not think they make it any more but it works great.  If did have a Supermicro AOC-USAS2-L8I UIO card.  It is easily adapted to a standard case, just a couple motherboard standoffs and a card bracket from a normal card (I used an old nic bracket, not worried about the small hole).  That is a cheap way to get an LSI-SAS2008 card, $100 less than an LSI 9211-8i which it is equal to.  

The expander card is an Intel RES2SV240 card which was the cheapest I could find that was based on the LSI-SAS2x24 chipset.

And hot-swap is the bomb, so make sure you get that because having to shut down to replace a drive is not cool (I have not shut off my server in a long time, even with the drive failures).

Cheers,

On Jan 2, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Roman Naumenko <roman at naumenko.ca> wrote:

> David Scharbach said the following, on 02-01-14 1:53 PM:
>> Supermicro may bit a bit overkill for the home server :)  Although I have considered it for myself at home…  We used them where I used to work and they are pretty nice for the money.
>> 
>> For myself, I opted to go with the Norco 4220, a Tyan MB with an integral LSI-2008 based HBA, LSI based intel SAS expander card, 16GB of ECC, a low end xeon and 13 3TB cheap seagate HDDs.  This setup allows for 20 hot swap bays connected to the SAS card, 2 2.5” SSDs connected to the MB via SATA for cache/zil and a slim optical drive with a spare SAS channel that I could use to connect to an external JBOD enclosure if needed.  My drives have seen a maximum temp of 39C and that is when doing a full scrub with the server in my utility room in winter (furnace is on, heats the room up).
>> 
>> I agree that cheap HDDs suck, I have returned 3 of them in a little over a year but ZFS and SMART are awesome at detecting early troubles.  Just had another bark at me for uncorrectable sector errors.  Resilvering my RaidZ2 production array does take a long time, but I have a RaidZ1 backup array so I would have to lose 5 of 13 drives at the same time to affect all my data.  Nice part is I can still add 7 more drives to the case if needed.
> There are number of option if you want to assemble something like a storage server, but it's all limited if you want to connect a JBOD to an existing server.
> By limited I mean the cost going to be >= original equipment.
> 
> Which card did you use by the way?
> 
> Roman
> 
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