From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 01:01:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98F5A106566C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 01:01:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gosand1982@yahoo.com) Received: from nm19-vm4.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm19-vm4.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A70C8FC0C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 01:01:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.52] by nm19.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2011 01:01:20 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.245] by tm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2011 01:01:20 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1059.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2011 01:01:20 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 580923.15698.bm@omp1059.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 49283 invoked by uid 60001); 7 Jul 2011 01:01:20 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1310000480; bh=8SesShJKZ2wjxbOLXY94eQ5L+YlGDgpKnMPPQPHyZrI=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=vYHKJbBirGeF3eVfP+1eqKOmVMK0iNpLEcI6+Aq2OKSGOUVewhaVFobCedbAGTtpdLi8yh1mgCehhJmDIob/Af1ICaXP21wGB8OvmlF1Kk2I16BxULjxDqE+4bbGnXiozfgqPf5/RvEWvHRDan95IpnpsQ1FwqZTSMpeXE2eRgw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Message-ID:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=E4cZdjZT3DNnCN5htd4YAh780BdWTFLoouA93zZbF6lxtDpK9DWUDXLdHp9ZJQ8Y/Gx0X7Z01n8x/qpnmsVwA/lZQP4sHKTyYJvNN/ebd4ZzB1oEh4mDYXoOlPlJNNvU3BqeChbPoTqMl5vtv49hCwHlYSJhJPFW7MOAqo+0CC8=; X-YMail-OSG: gr.61hIVM1lsj0D9uapiNmm0.N4XoYB2eeDpZcJF6XE3o5C 2NNVVzjgW5iWUiJFCrRhs3oDQ78xzpy5cYN.5aiwy2NY8hXOc_TGQH3W.P75 C7ngoTqTWz3cwkZh4XJrrVhUw47j4G9vZFlVRhDFN7Jv_EsXtZ.ReT5HB7P7 4GlamR79rFT51I2pCsITQlIIvXx4fDLRysf_UaODAkiCMV3Ym33MR6LghaHr 4EYCSKFjrWCIKnK0f5aXHb91pLLZjMFCaBaGhfd8ozGZK8AC3MsfZVJ8mSmx gxXIqUYcdHddwBFDFC7LX6gB9NwomtBJZ0Jn5XIhDJL2iTdU4huM- Received: from [75.210.254.42] by web120004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:01:20 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/572 YahooMailWebService/0.8.112.307740 Message-ID: <1310000480.20036.YahooMailRC@web120004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 18:01:20 -0700 (PDT) From: George Sanders To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: RE: Are thumpers still interesting in 2011 ? (raidz3 on x4500 @ 3.0gbps ...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:01:21 -0000 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 ?