We're in the process of testing a low-cost SSD-based storage machine for backup purposes. This machine will do most of the heavy work (comparing for differential backups, and then transferring results to offsite storage), hence the SSD based storage. We need alot of IOPS and throughput in this machine.
We currently use a SuperMicro X9DRD-7LN4F(-JBOD)/X9DRD-EF for this, which has a SAS2308 on board, and we've chosen to use use 6 "Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB" drives in RAID5. The performance is awsome to say the least, but it's proven to be unreliable/unstable. We get alot of SCSI resets and devices seem to dissapear under heavy load. The machine will need a powercycle to 're-see' the drives, a reboot doesn't even cut it.
I've some some searching, and I'm reading alot of 'no-gos' in the area of connecting SATA drives to SAS controllers via IPASS connectors.
http://garrett.damore.org/2010/08/why-sas-sata-is-not-such-great-idea.html
http://omnios-discuss.omniti.narkiv...rget-hang-no-way-to-restart-but-server-reboot
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SASWithSATAIntro
Obviously it would be nice to connect the drives to a native SATA HBA, but these are hard to find. And SAS SSD's are just too expensive.
Now this machine is a Linux based machine, not FreeBSD, but I've found that people have the same issues in FreeBSD. Obviously we're doing something wrong, and I was wondering if somebody with proper storage knowlegde can give some advise.
We currently use a SuperMicro X9DRD-7LN4F(-JBOD)/X9DRD-EF for this, which has a SAS2308 on board, and we've chosen to use use 6 "Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB" drives in RAID5. The performance is awsome to say the least, but it's proven to be unreliable/unstable. We get alot of SCSI resets and devices seem to dissapear under heavy load. The machine will need a powercycle to 're-see' the drives, a reboot doesn't even cut it.
I've some some searching, and I'm reading alot of 'no-gos' in the area of connecting SATA drives to SAS controllers via IPASS connectors.
http://garrett.damore.org/2010/08/why-sas-sata-is-not-such-great-idea.html
http://omnios-discuss.omniti.narkiv...rget-hang-no-way-to-restart-but-server-reboot
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SASWithSATAIntro
Obviously it would be nice to connect the drives to a native SATA HBA, but these are hard to find. And SAS SSD's are just too expensive.
Now this machine is a Linux based machine, not FreeBSD, but I've found that people have the same issues in FreeBSD. Obviously we're doing something wrong, and I was wondering if somebody with proper storage knowlegde can give some advise.