Hi,

Just wonder if there is something special that makes 7120 faster than the 
server you can assemble by yourself from common components. I have an ultimate 
task to make a fast zfs :)

And what I'm thinking about is that there is only thing you can't get from 
nearest server hardware supplier: SDD

I see that STEC SSD ZEUSiops are used in 7120. Other staff is pretty common: 
like 7200 SATA disks, controller probably can't increase speed much since it's 
a standard SATA 300MB/s

Processor and memory are usual, I have for example 2G E5405 quad-core 
processors and  16Gb RAM and 8 1.5T disks on Adapted 5805. Version is 111b
Well, the performance of such system is so-so. 30Mb/s nfs, 50Mb/s iscsi. I'm 
looking for a way to improve it radically. I have in mind FC, SAS drives and 
SSD, going to try all of them.

I'd like to start with SSD but STEC web-site doesn't show prices. Probably they 
are too high. Are there any other SSD supplier to try? IBM has 500$ 18G drives 
www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/ssd/index.html
but probably they don't optimized for writing.
IBM says that they can make write rate : 47MB/s and random Read (4K blocks): 
>5000 IOPS 

I also see that SUN itself sell 32 GB SATA SSD, 1200$
I see the following info in the catalog:
150Mb/s writing, 5000-7000 random write IOPS and 300 μs max command latency. 
Is this one going to improve zfs performance? 

Thanks,
Roman
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