OCZ announced new perfect ZIL candidate - AEONDrive :
http://www.techpowerup.com/161944/OCZ-AEONDrive-DRAM-SSD-Detailed.html
Wish it will be (much) cheaper than STEC ZeusRam
Hello. Reading russian forum I found patched BIOS that enables AHCI mode on SATA 5,6 ports.
It is ODD port and eSATA port. In HP BIOS this ports are in legacy IDE mode.
Link is http://www.multiupload.com/XY8H963LWX
Author announce http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=11:41849:877#877 (on russian...
Nomads, May be you should try Solaris 11 Express?
Or, and this is good news, you can try just come out OpenIndiana 134+ Stable. See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.openindiana.general/1353 for details.
Thank you for trying. You results about h/w support looks promising.
Now my concern is CPU power for raid-z calculation. Does it capable saturate Gigabit Ethernet with 4-disk raid-z pool?
I found this http://d.hatena.ne.jp/pekeq/20101020/p1
Looks like microserver can do 200/100 MB/s...
This tiny server look interesting.
Can you try Nexenta/Nexentastor or Opensolaris b134/OpenIndiana?
Hardware support and processor power for ZFS is the question.
Take a look at http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro
They have 40Gb on Sandforce for 100$ in august.