Eugen Leitl wrote: > Inspired by > http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6334764&postcount=14 > I'm considering taking the Supermicro chassis like > http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846E1-R900.cfm > populating it with 1 TByte WD Caviar Black WD1001FALS with TLER > set to 7 seconds,
I would not use the Caviar Black drives, regardless of TLER settings. The RE3 or RE4 drives would be a better choice, since they also have better vibration tolerance. This will be a significant factor in a chassis with 20 spinning drives. > Do you think above is a sensible choice? All your other choices seem good. I've used a lot of Supermicro gear with good results. The very leading-edge hardware is sometimes not supported, but anything that's been out for a while should work fine. I presume you're going for an Intel Xeon solution-- the peripherals on those boards a a bit better supported than the AMD stuff, but even the AMD boards work well. Eric -- Eric Sproul Lead Site Reliability Engineer OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc. Web Applications & Internet Architectures http://omniti.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
