Hello xnaron,
yes currently i am running two DS4246 with two IOM6 controllers each. Every enclosure is hooked up to two servers with CentOS7, zfs-on-linux and gluster on there. So far everything works like a charm, i have nothing to complain about. All my drives are negotiating directly to the right speeds even after serveral reboots and power cycles.
I never tried SATA drives because i want two servers connect to each dirve for high avalibility.
Sadly we had a few power outages the last days and one drive did not spunn up any more.
I orderet a new replacement drive (10000GB Seagate Exos X10 ST10000NM0096 256MB) this thing also works great in the enclosure.
Yeah those cables are freaking expensive.... about 80€ (91,12$) for new cable. And i needed eight of them because of the high avalibility.
Performance is also very good. I suggest you to upgrade the LSI cards to the newest IT-firmware (two links who helped me to do that LINK1 LINK2) because after this i got like 300-500 MB/s more in write and read is now about 4,5-5 GB/s also a few MB/s better than bevore.
I hope i helped you a bit.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask, i did a lot of stuff with those DS4243 the last weeks.
yes currently i am running two DS4246 with two IOM6 controllers each. Every enclosure is hooked up to two servers with CentOS7, zfs-on-linux and gluster on there. So far everything works like a charm, i have nothing to complain about. All my drives are negotiating directly to the right speeds even after serveral reboots and power cycles.
I never tried SATA drives because i want two servers connect to each dirve for high avalibility.
Sadly we had a few power outages the last days and one drive did not spunn up any more.
I orderet a new replacement drive (10000GB Seagate Exos X10 ST10000NM0096 256MB) this thing also works great in the enclosure.
Yeah those cables are freaking expensive.... about 80€ (91,12$) for new cable. And i needed eight of them because of the high avalibility.
Performance is also very good. I suggest you to upgrade the LSI cards to the newest IT-firmware (two links who helped me to do that LINK1 LINK2) because after this i got like 300-500 MB/s more in write and read is now about 4,5-5 GB/s also a few MB/s better than bevore.
I hope i helped you a bit.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask, i did a lot of stuff with those DS4243 the last weeks.