On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 01:11:49PM -0400, Eric Sproul wrote: > 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.
Yes, I'm aware of the issue, and am using 16x RE4 drives in my current box right now (which I unfortunately had to convert to CentOS 5.3 for Oracle/ custom software compatibility reasons). I've made very bad experiences with Seagate 7200.11 in RAID in the past. Thanks for your advice against Caviar Black. > > 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 I've been using http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/QPI/5500/X8DAi.cfm in above box. > 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. Yes, dual-socket quadcore Xeon. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
