Careful with that link... I believe you actually want goharddrive.com (2 "d")
The other one looks like a potential malware trap. :-) mc On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Jack Downes <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd have to echo Sebastian mostly. Zfs is great, but the underlying > hardware is... what is. add another 1 tb drive and put that as Raid 10 > (stripe the mirrors), and it'll perform pretty decently. You'd be > surprised. If you have the money, yeah, SSD is fantastic, but wow... if > you are trying to get reasonable size, you'll spend some cash. Perhaps in > this case that doesn't matter. If you have the money for SSD drives, you > might consider getting 4 reasonable 2TB drives (they sell them for $50 > each on gohardrive.com anymore for WD RE4 or Hitachi Ultrastars now), and > then putting some budget into a smartOS compatible PCI-SSD drive. Be > careful on that - it's easy to get the wrong drive, but it's not that hard > to get the right one either! That way you'd have your 4 spindles, raid 10 > with a slog, it'd be decent that way, IMHO. > > On 06/15/2015 07:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> one of my clients owns a supermicro-based box with 4 hot-swap sata bays. >> it has integrated SATA and (i believe) no SAS. the original admin populated >> it with (3) 1TB SATA disks and commissioned it as a fileserver (simple >> raid5). it has 32GB of memory. the box is no longer being used, so it's >> been allocated to me for the purpose of hosting another windows server. i'd >> like to virtualize the server via smartos/kvm but i have reservations. >> >> i believe i can get away with using only 16GB for VMs, so that leaves >> 16GB for smartos/zfs - i think that'll probably work well. but i seriously >> doubt those disks will give anything resembling decent performance. i only >> have 4 bays to work with, and only one is currently free. for a windows >> server VM hosting a multi-user database, would adding a SATA SSD as log >> device for the zones zpool keep me out of hot water here or is this just >> not going to work? >> >> obviously i can try to source a supported SAS controller and disks, but >> i'm wondering if i can actually get by with SATA ... what if i filled the >> (4) 3.5" bays with SSDs and striped across two mirrors? would that mostly >> guarantee decent performance, or will that just waste time and money? >> >> experienced opinions greatfully accepted! >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> smartos-discuss >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now >> RSS Feed: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26849696-e427f2da >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> > > -- > Jack Downes > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > smartos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/23055384-4ad60763 > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Mark ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
