Recent content by gdurham

Sorry for not seeing this post Mark. I have disabled multi path on the systems and I have the lsi sas card connected to the two connectors on the front backplane (where all of the disks are installed) I am setting up a third storage array based on the above, and contemplating getting a different...

Hello All, Just an update, I tested the above scenario to a degree with the rear backplane which was getting roughly 21mb/s, and was able to get 550mb/s with the four disks. I will find out Monday morning whether this is an issue with the HBA or an issue with Solaris 10. Thanks for viewing...

Hello All, I have set up 2 exact configurations with the following hardware Dell R710 LSI SAS 9200-8e sas2 card SC847E26-RJBOD1 14x Hitachi HUA723020ALA640 6 gb/s drives Again, we have another of the exact same configuration, only difference is the O.S. On node1 we are running Solaris 11, node...

Thanks alot for responding. I am quite a fan of your setup. Do you see any differences with regards to the e26 vs the e16? I am thinking to use the sata 3 6gb/s disks that were recommended. I hope to get the needed bandwidth with this setup. Thanks again all!

Thanks alot for the recommendation on that drive. I am looking into that sata 3 disk now. If I use this disk I will likely not run into the same issues that the person on the linked forum discussed correct? Out of curiousity, I have seen complaint over complaint regarding the intel sad disks...

Hello all, First time poster, long time reader. I am looking into doing a similar setup as referenced here I believe it was the ZFS Monster and several other builds. I am looking into using Western Digital 2TB RE4 drives and placing it in a SC847E26-RJBOD1 case. I just want to make sure that...