Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-27 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Going a bit on a tangent, does anyone know if those drives are available for sale anywhere? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-22 Thread David Magda
On Wed, November 21, 2012 16:06, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-11-21 21:55, Ian Collins wrote: I can't help thinking these drives would be overkill for an ARC device. All of the expensive controller hardware is geared to boosting random write IOPs, which somewhat wasted on a write slowly, read

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/14/12 12:28, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-11-13 22:56, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Trying again: Intel just released those drives. Any thoughts on how nicely they will play in a zfs/hardware raid setup? Seems interesting - fast, assumed reliable and consistent in its IOPS (according to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-21 21:55, Ian Collins wrote: I can't help thinking these drives would be overkill for an ARC device. All of the expensive controller hardware is geared to boosting random write IOPs, which somewhat wasted on a write slowly, read often device. The enhancements would be good for a ZIL,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-14 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Nov 14 at 0:28, Jim Klimov wrote: All in all, I can't come up with anything offensive against it quickly ;) One possible nit regards the ratings being geared towards 4KB block (which is not unusual with SSDs), so it may be further from announced performance with other block sizes -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-14 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-14 18:05, Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Wed, Nov 14 at 0:28, Jim Klimov wrote: All in all, I can't come up with anything offensive against it quickly ;) One possible nit regards the ratings being geared towards 4KB block (which is not unusual with SSDs), so it may be further from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-13 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Trying again: Intel just released those drives. Any thoughts on how nicely they will play in a zfs/hardware raid setup? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-13 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-13 22:56, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Trying again: Intel just released those drives. Any thoughts on how nicely they will play in a zfs/hardware raid setup? Seems interesting - fast, assumed reliable and consistent in its IOPS (according to marketing talk), addresses power loss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-13 Thread Freddie Cash
Anandtech.com has a thorough review of it. Performance is consistent (within 10-15% IOPS) across the lifetime of the drive, has capacitors to flush RAM cache to disk, and doesn't store user data in the cache. It's also cheaper per GB than the 710 it replaces. On 2012-11-13 3:32 PM, Jim Klimov