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Well, I can tell you guys my story. I shucked 6 x 5TB SMR (shingle) drives from that Amazon Seagate Expansion External HDD deals back a year ago. I have been using these guys in both Illumos and BSD (Freenas) ZFS. I finally switched to Freenas 9.10 which has been running for about a year now...

I have been running it at work for lab/dev vmware infrastructure. No complaints here.

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Btw, why do they make the transceivers removable? Why not just make it a permanent part of the card? You can't do anything without the transceiver anyway. I know they want vendor lock in but the cards can be branded in the first place. Maybe a card can use for single and multimode so the...

Add intel branded transceiver, aroubd $30 bucks, which is supposedly required and you are up to around $70 bucks. I looked and most dual ports, card only, are around $130. And then you have to add 2 intel branded transceivers, it's more like $200. I'm buying for my work and saving a few bucks...

Just pulled the trigger and got Intel X520-DA1 with Intel branded transceiver for $100 on the bay.

Yeh, I spent some time yesterday searching and trying to get OmniOS (latest stable release) to see the ConnectX-2 card but no luck. Today, I tried the same card on FreeBSD 10.2 Release and got it working with a few modifications with regard to enabling the mlx4, mlxen drivers and loader.conf...

I'd just installed the newly arrived ConnectX-2 MNPA19-XTR on a fresh OmniOS latest stable release and no luck! "prtconf -D" or "prtconf -D | grep ml" did not show anything Mellanox related. bummer! I'll play with it some more, but as of right now, it doesn't look good. On the other hand, my...

Yeh, I really like Microsoft's S2D but don't see it being implemented widely due to first generation software, plus it's tilted toward Hyper-V. And the new licensing scheme doesn't help either. I will play with it for sure.

The point of hyper-converge is huge cost saving and simple management but from my brief reading and googling, I don't see the big cost saving. For instance, Nutanix license and blessed hardware cost A LOT!

It would be great if you can also disclose your thought process for why you chose ScaleIO instead of other Hyper-Converge solutions i.e. Nutanix, Ceph, vSAN, DataCore, ScaleComputing, Simplivity, etc

@whitey, Well, if they removed the ConnnectX-2 support then doesn't it means that they have also removed the drivers? It would be great of @gea can jump in and shed some light.

Very interested!

@Baddreams , Thank you the great piece of info!

I had recently purchased several ConnectX-2 MNPA19-XTR 10GbE SFP+ NICs to be used on ZFS storage with OmniOS and Napp-It. Before I purchased them several weeks ago, I saw that they were on the OmniOS/IllumOS HCL but now they are not. I did some digging and some people did say that the...

Looking forward to the review! I got mine a week ago but have not powered it on yet...busy and waiting for 10Gb nics, transceivers, etc.

You just bought some 10GbE gear and what are you going to do with them if you go to 40GbE? You can send them to me. :) For sure, if you want to do 40GbE, it's plenty affordable. Do it! Maybe sell the gear you just got?

@alex1002, what the hell are you doing in your lab that requires 40GbE? :) If it was me, I would focus on what techno I want to learn / test and the minimum hardware that would allows me to do so.

Thank you for passing on the knowledge.

And note that you need PCIe 3.0. http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=127