Thank you for the replies guys! I was actually already planning to get another 4 gigs of ram for the box right away anyway, but thank you for mentioning it! As there appears to be a couple ways to "skin the cat" here i think i am going to try both a 14 spindle RaidZ2 and 2 X 7 RaidZ2 configuration and see what the performance is like. I have a fews days of grace before i need to have this server ready for duty.
Something i forgot to note in my original post is the performance numbers i am concerned with are going to be during reads primarily. There could be at any one point 4 media players attempting to stream media from this server. The media players all have 100mb interfaces so as long i can can reliable stream 400mb/s it should be ok (this is assuming all the media players were playing high bitrate Blueray streams at one time). Any writing to this array would happen pretty infrequently and i normally schedule any file transfers for the wee hours of the morning anyway. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
