[OpenIndiana-discuss] Expanding storage with JBOD

[Saso Kiselkov]

On 1/3/14, 8:12 PM, David Scharbach wrote:
> How does a 5 drive bay work over sas?  Does it have an internal expander for the 5th drive??
>

Well, speaking about expanders, you can attach any number of drives off
of them, not just some nice multiple of 4 :) but this particular box
doesn't have an expander. It's just 5 direct pass-thru ports (well, 10
actually, the case is built for SAS, so 2 ports per path).

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Saso