Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations

2010-12-10 Thread Andy
We use ZFS and use SSDs for both the log device and L2ARC.  All disks and SSDs are behind a 3ware with BBU in single disk mode.  Out of curiosity why do you put your log on SSD? Log is all sequential IOs, an area in which SSD is not any faster than HDD. So I'd think putting log on SSD

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations

2010-12-10 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
On 10-12-2010 14:58 Andy wrote: We use ZFS and use SSDs for both the log device and L2ARC. All disks and SSDs are behind a 3ware with BBU in single disk mode. Out of curiosity why do you put your log on SSD? Log is all sequential IOs, an area in which SSD is not any faster than HDD. So I'd

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations

2010-12-10 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
On 10-12-2010 18:57 Arjen van der Meijden wrote: Have a look here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/21 The sequential writes-graphs consistently put several SSD's at twice the performance of the VelociRaptor 300GB 10k rpm disk and that's a test from over a year old, current SSD's have

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations

2010-12-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Arjen van der Meijden acmmail...@tweakers.net wrote: On 10-12-2010 18:57 Arjen van der Meijden wrote: Have a look here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/21 The sequential writes-graphs consistently put several SSD's at twice the performance of the

Re: [PERFORM] Hardware recommendations

2010-12-10 Thread Andy
The common knowledge you based that comment on, may actually not be very up-to-date anymore. Current consumer-grade SSD's can achieve up to 200MB/sec when writing sequentially and they can probably do that a lot more consistent than a hard disk. Have a look here: