On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 13:10, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote: > > On Thu, February 5, 2009 12:01, Eric D. Mudama wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 5 at 17:46, Karl Rossing wrote: >>> Would there be another inexpensive way to add zil and l2arc to a home >>> system? >> >> Buy another 4GB of RAM for $50? Wouldn't that effectively grow the arc? > > I had to replace a bad 1GB stick of ECC ram in my home fileserver the > other week. That single 1GB stick was $100 locally; I haven't priced it > on the net, but I'd be surprised if it got as low as $50 from anywhere > respectable, the local place I bought mine is pretty good. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134332 is $11.50 for 1gb of ECC DDR2 unbuffered Kingston. I'd call Newegg reuptable.
If ECC is required, then 4 gigs of memory cost: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134633 $94 FBDIMM (intel 5000 series et al) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148115 $48 Unbuffered (intel x38 chipset takes these, for example) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134273 $56 Registered (Opterons, et al) and if you don't have an ECC board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148160 $38 Local stores are good when a part is needed quickly. In my experience, they're not good when a part is needed cheaply. Will _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
