Hi, I've been reading up on port multipliers and I was wondering if anyone's had any experience with them they'd like to share. From what I've read of them I would expect the performance to be slower but how much slower are they in the real world? I ask because I'm exploring options for my organization and we're looking at some large JBOD enclosures that can handle up to 15 SATA drives and I'm trying to minimize performance impact on the drives while at the same time minimize the amount of cabling between the openfiler and the enclosure. The server using the enclosure will be running openfiler as a backend iSCSI target(?) for a couple of VMware ESXi hosts and while the hosts won't be running anything heavy duty, mainly just filesharing & email, I'm hoping to keep things running as fast as possible. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
