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

[Freddie Cash]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:01 PM, George Sanders <gosand1982 at yahoo.com> 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?
>

SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8i is an 8-port muiltilane controller using the
LSI2008 chipset.

It's the upgrade to the venerable AOC-USAS-L8i based on the LSI1068 chipset.
-- 
Freddie Cash
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