Then just ask yourself "would I rather have cores sitting idle or
messed up video and a spare dualy if two cores isn't enough" and
whichever you'd prefer. Bit I tell ya osol, She's a resource hog :)
On May 8, 2010, at 8:40, Brian <broco...@vt.edu> wrote:
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.
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