[zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

[Dave Pooser]

On 10/19/11 9:14 AM, "Albert Shih" <Albert.Shih at obspm.fr> 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.
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