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Sc847 36 drive config. Wd RE3 1tb drives. Areca and lsi hba. 3 or so drives would completely hang under any kind of decent load. Replaced with lsi 1068 and chenbro sas espanders and replaced the supermicro backplane with the -A version (direct port) and its been riPping along for well over a year. We r...

Oracle have deleted the best ZFS platform I know, the X4540. Does anyone know of an equivalent system? None of the current Oracle/Sun offerings come close. -- Ian.

...- but we''re still fighting with this problem and I wanted to throw it out here again. All of our hardware is from Silicon Mechanics (SuperMicro chassis and motherboards). Up until now, all of the hardware has had a single 24-disk expander / backplane -- but we recently got one of the new SC847-based models with 24 disks up front and 12 in the back -- a dual backplane setup. We''re using two SSD''s in the front backplane as mirrored ZIL/OS (I don''t think we have the 4K alignment set up correctly) and two drives in the back as L2ARC. The rest of the disks are 1TB...