[OmniOS-discuss] High density 2.5" chassis

[Chris Nagele]

Thanks Chip. That's a great write up. I've definitely heard a lot of
negative things about interposers, right we've been using them for
years as well. Not saying it is fine, but just my experience.

If we didn't use interposers how else would it work with that many drives?

Chris

Chris Nagele
Co-founder, Wildbit
Beanstalk, Postmark, dploy.io


On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Schweiss, Chip <chip at innovates.com> wrote:
> I have an SSD server in one of those chassis.  Here's a write-up about it on
> my blog, there are 3 postings about it.
>
> http://www.bigdatajunkie.com/index.php/9-solaris/zfs/10-short-stroking-consumer-ssds
>
> Not necessarily a build for everyone, but it has been absolutely awesome for
> our use. After a few bumps at the beginning and giving up on HA on this
> server, it has been rock solid.  Many will swear against the interposers,
> but combined with Samsung SSDs they have worked very well.
>
> -Chip
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Chris Nagele <nagele at wildbit.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all. Continuing on my all SSD discussion, I am looking for some
>> recommendations on a new Supermicro
>> chassis for our file servers. So far I have been looking at this
>> thing:
>>
>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/417/SC417E16-R1400LP.cfm
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with this? If so, what would you recommend
>> for a motherboard and HBA to support all of the disks? We've
>> traditionally used the X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD or the X9DRi-F with a LSI
>> 9211-8i HBA.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
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