Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:01:20 -0700 (PDT) From: George Sanders <gosand1982@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Are thumpers still interesting in 2011 ? (raidz3 on x4500 @ 3.0gbps ...) Message-ID: <1310000480.20036.YahooMailRC@web120004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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Gerrit Khun wrote: I am still looking for a viable replacement of LSI1068e-based cards for home-built ZFS servers. This LSI chipset does not support drives larger than 2TB which has become a serious limitation for me. I read that the LSI2008 is supposed to be some kind of follow-up, and it should be supported with recent FreeBSD's mps driver. However, I could not find any cheap (non-hw-raid) cards with 8 channels (or more) like there are with the old LSI1068 chipset. Are there any recommendations? Is this indeed the case ? The six controllers that are built into a "thumper" (a x4500) cannot see space beyond 2TB on a single disk ? This is very good information - thank you - as I was considering using an old x4500 with 3TB disk drives... Is there really no firmware update - from either LSI or Sun - that fixes this ?
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