I'm running 8x500 GB drives (mixed Seagate and WDC) in RAIDZ2 on an Intel SASUC8I (rebadged LSI SAS3081E-R), and 3x500 GB WDC drives for the mirrored root pool using the onboard AMD SB700 ports. I also recently added a 30 GB OCZ Vertex solid state drive for L2ARC and ZIL. Two free slots in a hotswap drive bay are available for making backups.
I swapped out the Phenom dual-core for the Athlon II quad (the Phenom is now in a workstation). It turned out that I could unlock two more cores in the Phenom via the motherboard BIOS, so it really wasn't necessary for me to swap CPUs, but I didn't find out until later, and I didn't want to make another swap. Note that there is no guarantee that you can unlock extra cores on a Phenom dual-core - nor that the unlocked cores are stable. I lucked out in that regard. When I run a scrub on the RAIDZ2 pool with the Athlon II quad-core, all four cores are active at about 60% or so. If I had used the Phenom with the unlocked cores running, it would probably be a bit more lightly loaded - but with only two cores running, both cores were completely maxed out. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
