I'm looking at building a high bandwidth file server to store video for editing, as an alternative to buying a $30,000 hardware RAID and spending $2000 per seat on fibrechannel and specialized SAN drive software.
Uncompressed HD runs around 1.2 to 4 gigabits per second, putting it in 10 gigabit Ethernet or FibreChannel territory. Any file server would have to be able to move that many bits in sustained read and sustained write, and doing both simultaneously would be a plus. If the drives were plentiful enough and fast enough, could a RAID-Z (on currently available off-the-shelf hardware) keep up with that? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
