[geeks] In which 3Ware can bite me

[Francois Dion]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:
> I suppose another alternative is to throw away the 9500 and stuff in
> several smaller Solaris10-supported SATA JBOD cards.

you'd probably want 2 cards anyway depending on how you set up your
redundancy.

> The machine has
> two PCI-X slots (one of which currently holds the 9500) and two
> available PCI32 slots.

Are these 133MHz, 64 bits? That can translate into 1GB/s with an 8
port LSI card. Put 2 and mirror card A drives to card B.

That's what I have. I only paid $41 total for both LSI 8 port PCI-X
sas cards including shipping and 2 cables that go from 1 sas wide to 4
sata. They were brand new pulls. New in box they can be found for
about $80 each with shipping, perhaps a little less. These work on
sparc and x86 solaris 10.

Francois