freebsd-fs Digest, Vol 431, Issue 2

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello, Radio.
You wrote 20 сентября 2011 г., 11:13:08:

>> Presuming I can*find*  a 112+ lane mobo, I assume the cost would be at worst double ($800ish instead of $400ish) a mobo with fewer pcie lanes...
> Good luck...I would be extremely surprised if you found it. And then 
> even more surprised if it cost much below $8000.
> TYAN S8232, S7025 have 72 lanes, but unevenly distributed
> Supermicro X8OBN-F has 80, but that's for Xeon 7xxx.
> Tyan FT72B7015 has 8 x16 slots and 2 x4, but x16 ones are built with 
> PCIe switches, which halves available bandwidth. I think having 8 SATA
> cards in them would be your best option.
 IMHO, best option for topic stater is to buy Sun, grrr, sorry, Oracle
Thumper. It has custom-build mobo with proper configuration of PCIe
lanes, proper case for 48 3.5" SATA drives, already configured and
tuned ZFS (Oracle 10, of course), etc. And as it is Opteron-based
server, FreeBSD could be installed too :)

  Its official name is SunFire X4540. It is EOL now, but, I think, it is possible to
find one. Here is one at eBay for $19000 with 48x500Gb discs right
now :)

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>