Joseph L. Casale schrieb: > > I need to replace a slow HP MSA20 that’s a bottleneck right now (We > are an HP shop). > HP’s only option with 3.5” SATA drives is stuck at SATA I behind a SAS > controller. > > Dell makes an MD1000 that claims SATA II speeds behind a SAS Perc 5/E > (Don’t know anything about dell). > > > > Anyone got any real world info they can share? I need 3.5” SATA II at > least 12 drives behind SAS, > > I am not concerned about space and could use multiple 1u chassis if I > had to. > Promise VTRAK J610sS? We use it with Solaris and ZFS - I'm not too keen on using LVM on more than a handful of disks. IMO, 16 disks is probably the minimum to get some decent non-linear performance out of SATA. If you have the money, you can go for a SUN J4500 ;-) Rainer