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

[George Sanders]

Gerrit Khun wrote:


I am still looking for a viable replacement of LSI1068e-based cards for 
home-built ZFS servers. This LSI chipset does not support drives larger than 2TB 

which has become a serious limitation for me. I read that the LSI2008 is 
supposed to be some kind of follow-up, and it should be supported with recent 
FreeBSD's mps driver. However, I could not find any cheap (non-hw-raid) cards 
with 8 channels (or more) like there are with the old LSI1068 chipset. Are there 

any recommendations? 




Is this indeed the case ?  The six controllers that are built into a "thumper" 
(a x4500) cannot see space beyond 2TB on a single disk ?

This is very good information - thank you - as I was considering using an old 
x4500 with 3TB disk drives...

Is there really no firmware update - from either LSI or Sun - that fixes this ?