KevinM
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I sure wouldn't. I'm actually thinking of waiting until 9.10 comes out so I can go with the E1CR36L and SAS3. I still think it's not a bad idea to get a second 3008. HBAs are pretty cheap in the big scheme of things, and if a card died I'd be able to get the pool back online pretty quickly.What RAID controller? That platform has an LSI 2308 in IT mode. It was like they *made* it for ZFS. :)
But assuming you meant "HBA" and mistyped "RAID controller"... That would seem to be a function of how you choose to connect the expanders to the host, rather than any inherent thing. You can certainly attach to two separate HBA's if there's a PCIe bus bandwidth issue. When you're spending this much on a storage server, no one will blink at paying a few hundred extra for an additional HBA and maybe a cable.
Once I get these boxes in production I'm going to refresh the two existing E1R36N boxes. They're currently running 8.3.2 on 9207 HBAs. After I migrate the data to the new boxes I'm going to upgrade them to 9.3-current, 10GB Ethernet and swap out the SSDs. I'm thinking I should get a couple more 9207s for those also.