From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 01:38:17 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5864A1065670 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:38:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.zfs@alfordmedia.com) Received: from smtp.alfordmedia.com (smtp.alfordmedia.com [69.26.223.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366BB8FC14 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.alfordmedia.com ([192.168.67.6]) by smtp.alfordmedia.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RGgvv-0004B2-JA; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:56:31 -0500 X-Find-Attachment: Scanned X-ExtScanner: Niversoft's Find_Attachments Received: from [76.183.154.110] (account dave.lists@alfordmedia.com HELO [192.168.74.51]) by mail.alfordmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP-TLS id 26161510; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:56:30 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.13.0.110805 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:56:28 -0500 From: Dave Pooser Sender: Dave Pooser To: , Message-ID: Thread-Topic: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20111019141443.GQ4592@pcjas.obspm.fr> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:38:17 -0000 On 10/19/11 9:14 AM, "Albert Shih" wrote: >When we buy a MD1200 we need a RAID PERC H800 card on the server No, you need a card that includes 2 external x4 SFF8088 SAS connectors. I'd recommend an LSI SAS 9200-8e HBA flashed with the IT firmware-- then it presents the individual disks and ZFS can handle redundancy and recovery. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com