So we are looking at a few different dual controller devices (QNAP ES1640DC v2, QSAN, etc).
The re-occuring theme is that they only support SAS drives (or SATA with MUX board, but seems that some SMART data does not pass along with other issues).
Does anyone have any go to 1TB - 2TB SAS SSD's they would recommend (bang for buck). Our workload doesn't need a crazy TBW/endurance as it's read heavy on most things.
Jumping from SATA to SAS is a big pill to swallow. Ugh..
Alternatively, does anyone have any feedback with smaller SSD's as cache on ES1640DC's serving back-end spindles?
The re-occuring theme is that they only support SAS drives (or SATA with MUX board, but seems that some SMART data does not pass along with other issues).
Does anyone have any go to 1TB - 2TB SAS SSD's they would recommend (bang for buck). Our workload doesn't need a crazy TBW/endurance as it's read heavy on most things.
Jumping from SATA to SAS is a big pill to swallow. Ugh..
Alternatively, does anyone have any feedback with smaller SSD's as cache on ES1640DC's serving back-end spindles?