[NTLUG:Discuss] High end PCIe storage/RAID adapters

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:27:29AM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> 
> Tunneling SATA in SAS is theoretically possible, but
> I don't think there's an available implementation.
> Again, I think they're still working out some kinks.
> 
You are correct here, jgarzik was discussing this yesterday in fact.  He is
interested in doing the SAS+SATA driver for some of the hardware coming
out, but there has been no movement yet.   There was also some discussin
over the expectation that in the next couple of years most SATA hardware
will likely be SAS+SATA.

> My next home workstation would ideall have 2xdual core
> Opterons and an all PCIe board (someday).  I haven't
> seen anything great on the PCIe end with regards to
> good high end RAID controllers though...
> 
Sadly, I have not seen any out there just yet either.   I think PCI Express
is your best bet at the moment, and there are a few options there.

Justin M. Forbes
Kernel Engineer
rpath, Inc.
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