Re: 3ware vs. MegaRAID

On 2010-04-08 05:44, Dave Crooke wrote:
> For a card level RAID controller, I am a big fan of the LSI 8888, which is
> available in a PCIe riser form factor for blade / 1U servers, and comes with
> 0.5GB of battery backed cache. Full Linux support including mainline kernel
> drivers and command line config tools. Was using these with SAS expanders
> and 48x 1TB SATA-300 spindles per card, and it was pretty (adjective) quick
> for a card-based system ... comparable with a small FC-AL EMC Clariion CX3
> series in fact, just without the redundancy.
>

Can someone shed "simple" light on an extremely simple question.
How do you physicallly get 48 drives attached to an LSI that claims to
only have 2 internal and 2 external ports?
(the controller claims to support up to 240 drives).

I'm currently looking at getting a server with space for 8 x 512GB SSDs
running raid5 (or 6) and are looking for an well performing controller
with BBWC for the setup. So I was looking for something like the LSI888ELP.

--
Jesper