I will probably go to 8GB very quickly if it looks like I will need it. I will by 2 2GB sticks - so I can upgrade to 8 without any trouble if it looks like I need it. Its much easier after the fact to order another $130 in memory later than have the initial price creep past $1k :-)
This may speak to my lack of fully understanding ZFS - but how would an SSD help with the buffering and streaming of video? I didn't think ZIL was a big deal for CIFS - and I didn't think the L2ARC did any kind of write buffering? 2TB non-green drives are out of my budget presently. The non-green versions seem to run around $250 or more. I am trying to stay under 1K total. I do plan to use dedup/compression on both the backup and the documents file systems. Does that mean I would be better off with the quad core? I certainly don't want my video recording to be broken because the CPU is busy doing dedup/compression because time machine kicked off a backup.. I do know that dedup can require a lot of memory to run efficiently. But, I am not terribly concerned with backup performance as long as it doesn't impact write performance to other filesystems. With the knowledge that I want to do dedup/compression on loads where I don't care about throughput - I am not sure if that puts me in the 2 or the 4 core camp. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
