[geeks] In which 3Ware can bite me

[Lionel Peterson]

On Mar 9, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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.

I'd be interested in a model number for that LSI SAS controller (PCI- 
X, 8 port, supported under Solaris) - that could come in handy, and I  
think outhers might be interested too.

Lionel