I had a number of replies to my question, unfortunately most of them were about using USB or else told me that it was impossible. I have found a company making a SAS controller (Serial Attached SCSI) card that also allows SATA (Serial-ATA) drives to be used and has Solaris SPARC drivers: LSI Logic. They say: "The SAS3442X, PCI-X, 8-port 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) HBA has 4 internal and 4 external ports and can be connected directly to 8 SAS and/or SATA hard disk drives. Each port delivers up to 300 MB/s bandwidth (600 MB/s full duplex) for a combined throughput of as much as 2.4 GB/s (4.8 GB/s full duplex)" Best price I could find on the net was $300 unfortunately, but this still makes the complete solution much cheaper than SCSI and is much faster than USB. 2 x 250GB SATA drives is about $300, making the whole project about #600. Cheapest big SCSI drive I could find is a refurbished Maxtor 300GB for $495 + postage from discountechnology.com. There is another company making SATA solutions for SPARC Solaris machines: Sun! Their new Ultra-45 workstation uses two 250GB SATA drives. Also the Sun Fire T1000. I guess they know how to make it work - I wonder who's controllers they use. Anybody? I'm still not sure about setting up a mirror using SATA drives. One person said it wouldn't work and yet I see various references to this on the 'net. Anybody? Nick On 28/02/06, Nick Pettefar <Nick@pettefar.com> wrote: > We have a small web/file server which is running out of data disk > space (it will soon need to store more than the mirrored 120 GB IDE > discs I fitted can hold). The machine is performing admirably and I > don't want to change it unnecessarily. It is running the latest > Solaris 10. I have been putting off this upgrade but now it is > becoming critical! > > Is it possible to fit a SATA PCI controller card and use SVM to make a > mirror of two 250 GB SATA drives? This would keep us going for a > couple more years at least. Have any of you any experience of such a > set-up? > > Regards, > > Nick > -- > Nick@Pettefar.com DoD 1069 MAG 73516 ZZR11 R90s VFR750 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Mar 9 19:09:47 2006
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