[OmniOS-discuss] SATA SSD vs. SAS

[Nate Smith]

Thanks, Fabio, Yeah, the 1015 cards are great and cheap. I used that on my old system for ZIL with the exact same setup you're talking about.  Unfortunately, it doesn't scale in the servers I have. I had to "shoehorn" my zil drives in to bypass the backplane on my previous server. I may have to get another chassis like the one you describe.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fábio Rabelo [mailto:fabio at fabiorabelo.wiki.br] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 4:25 PM
To: Nate Smith; omnios-discuss at lists.omniti.com
Subject: Re: [OmniOS-discuss] SATA SSD vs. SAS

Hi to all ...

I live in Brazil, and here there are things that are VERY hard to find !

So, I need to be creative to get things done ...

This as my experiences, till now :

I Use Supermicro SATA backplanes ( the ones wirh  "TQ"  in the end of the part number ) with a mix of SATA and SAS disks without any kind of issue so far  ...

The only controller card I used till now are the IBM 1015 flashed to IT , and the breakout cables, one end are sff8087 and the other end have 4 SATA connectors .