Are thumpers still interesting in 2011 ? (raidz3 on x4500 @ 3.0gbps ...)

[Gerrit Kühn]

On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:37:43 +0200 Michael Fuckner <michael at fuckner.net>
wrote about Re: Are thumpers still interesting in 2011 ? (raidz3 on x4500
@ 3.0gbps ...):

MF> if you have so many disks I would recommend a chassis with expander
MF> Backplane (like Supermicro 846E16). You have 4x6GBit to the backplane
MF> which should be enough even if you connect 24 HDD.

I think then I get an SFF8087 lane (or even infiniband, which is even
more expensive) with 24 drives connected and face the same issue: which
controller do I connect this to?


cu
  Gerrit