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...switching and whatnot but it is not really bad in practice. I would just go in not expecting to be able to exceed 80-85% of your upstream link speed. The above example is using a pcie card but I have done the same thing using a built in. What support may be alluding to is that the SFF8087 - SFF8088 slot adapters are normally built with the SFF8088 as a host port and the SFF8087's as a target meaning they are meant to be used in a JBOD. They do sell the reverse like what you are looking for but they are generally more expensive and harder to find. There is no reason you can't do w...

On 08/30/2015 12:02 PM, Mike Mohr wrote: > In my experience the mass market HBAs and RAID cards typically do support > only 8 or 16 drives. For the internal variety in a standard rack-mount > server you'll usually see either 2 or 4 iPass cables (each of which support > 4 drives) connected to the backplane. The marketing material you've > referenced has a white lie in it:

Greetings all- I need to purchase a PCIe SATA or SAS controller(non-raid) for a Supermicro 2U system. It should be directly bootable. Any recommendations? The system will be running CentOS 5.4 as an LTSP system. Thanks! --Tim

I'm trying to improve the setup of our Dovecot/Exim mail servers to handle the increasingly huge accounts (everybody thinks it's like infinitely growing storage like gmail and stores everything forever in their email accounts) by changing from Maildir to mdbox, and to take advantage of offloading older emails to alternative networked storage nodes. The question now is whether having a