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I''m building another 24-bay rackmount storage server, and I''m considering what drives to put in the bays. My chassis is a Supermicro SC846A, so the backplane supports SAS or SATA; my controllers are LSI3081E, again supporting SAS or SATA. Looking at drives, Seagate offers an enterprise (Constellation) 2TB 7200RPM drive in both SAS and SATA configurations; the SAS model offers one quarter the buffer (16MB vs 64MB on the SATA model), the same rotational speed, and costs 10% more than its enterprise SATA...

...g, load-avg is artificially high, fmd being the one process that sticks out in prstat output. But fmdump -v doesn''t show anything relevant. Anyone have ideas on how to diagnose what''s going on there? Thanks, Ethan System: Sun x4240 dual-amd2347, 32G of ram SAS/SATA Controller: LSI3081E OS: osol snv_98 SSD: Intel x25-e