> Fun exercise! :) > Indeed! - though my wife and kids don't seem to appreciate it so much ;)
>> I'm thinking about using this 26-disk case: [FYI: 2-disk RAID1 for >> the OS & 4*(4+2) RAIDZ2 for SAN] > > What are you *most* interested in for this server? Reliability? > Capacity? High Performance? Reading or writing? Large contiguous reads > or small seeks? > > One thing that I did that got a good feedback from this list was > picking apart the requirements of the most demanding workflow I > imagined for the machine I was speccing out. My first posting contained my use-cases, but I'd say that video recording/serving will dominate the disk utilization - thats why I'm pushing for 4 striped sets of RAIDZ2 - I think that it would be all around goodness > I'm learning more and more about this subject as I test the server > (not all that dissimilar to what you've described, except with only 18 > disks) I now have. I'm frustrated at the relative unavailability of > PCIe SATA controller cards that are ZFS-friendly (i.e., JBOD), and the > relative unavailability of motherboards that support both the latest > CPUs as well as have a good PCI-X architecture. Good point - another reply I just sent noted a PCI-X sata controller card, but I'd prefer a PCIe card - do you have a recommendation on a PCIe card? As far as a mobo with "good PCI-X architecture" - check out the latest from Tyan (http://tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=523) - it has three 133/100MHz PCI-X slots > If you come across some potential solutions, I think a lot of people > here will thank you for sharing... Will keep the list posted! Thanks, Kent _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
