Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:38:53 -0600 Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I guess I've been lucky also - but IMHO the failure rate for RAM these days is pretty small[1]. I've also been around hundreds of SPARC boxes and, again, very, few RAM failures (one is all that I can remember). Risk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Elling
Ian Collins wrote: Al Hopper wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:49:17 +1300 Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-16 Thread Richard Elling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RTL8211C IP checksum offload is broken. You can disable it, but you have to edit /etc/system. See CR 6686415 for details. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6686415 -- richard I think the proper way to state this is the driver doesn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
I looked at this a month back, i was leaning towards intel for performance and power consumption but went for AMD doe to lack of ECC support in most of the Intel chipsets. I went for a AM2+ GeForce 8200 motherboard which seemed more stable with Solaris than 8300. With the AM2+ socket I can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:49:17 +1300 Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WD Caviar Black drive [...] Intel E7200 2.53GHz 3MB L2 The P45 based boards are a no-brainer 16G of DDR2-1066 with P45 or 8G of ECC DDR2-800 with 3210 based boards That is the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-15 Thread Richard Elling
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:49:17 +1300 Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WD Caviar Black drive [...] Intel E7200 2.53GHz 3MB L2 The P45 based boards are a no-brainer 16G of DDR2-1066 with P45 or 8G of ECC DDR2-800 with 3210

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-15 Thread Al Hopper
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:49:17 +1300 Ian Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WD Caviar Black drive [...] Intel E7200 2.53GHz 3MB L2 The P45 based boards are a no-brainer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-14 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:43 PM, gnomad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like many others, I am looking to put together a SOHO NAS based on ZFS/CIFS. The plan is 6 x 1TB drives in RAIDZ2 configuration, driven via mobo with 6 SATA ports. I've read most, if not all, of the threads here, as well as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-14 Thread Rob
WD Caviar Black drive [...] Intel E7200 2.53GHz 3MB L2 The P45 based boards are a no-brainer 16G of DDR2-1066 with P45 or 8G of ECC DDR2-800 with 3210 based boards That is the question. Rob ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Still more questions WRT selecting a mobo for small ZFS RAID

2008-11-14 Thread Ian Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WD Caviar Black drive [...] Intel E7200 2.53GHz 3MB L2 The P45 based boards are a no-brainer 16G of DDR2-1066 with P45 or 8G of ECC DDR2-800 with 3210 based boards That is the question. I guess the answer is how valuable is your data? -- Ian.