Re: [OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

2015-02-25 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Marts,

Yesterday Warren Marts wrote:

> At some point sourcing true 512 B/sector disks will get more difficult and
> expensive - unless you knew this filesystem is likely to see lots of small
> writes and performance or space efficiency are critical I'd lean to the 4KB
> sector disks.

Amazingly, the new He6 drives from HGST only seem to exist in an
512n variant ... while the also new He8 drives only come in 4Kn and
512e types ...


> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Richard Elling <
> richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > > On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Tobias Oetiker  wrote:
> > >
> > > experts!
> > >
> > > If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for
> > > 512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn.
> > >
> > > I know ZFS can deal with both ...
> > >
> > > So what would be your choice, and WHY?
> >
> > Better yet, what would be your requirements, then your choice, then why?
> >  -- richard
> >
> > >
> > > cheers
> > > tobi
> > >
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

2015-02-25 Thread Warren Marts
At some point sourcing true 512 B/sector disks will get more difficult and
expensive - unless you knew this filesystem is likely to see lots of small
writes and performance or space efficiency are critical I'd lean to the 4KB
sector disks.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Richard Elling <
richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Tobias Oetiker  wrote:
> >
> > experts!
> >
> > If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for
> > 512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn.
> >
> > I know ZFS can deal with both ...
> >
> > So what would be your choice, and WHY?
>
> Better yet, what would be your requirements, then your choice, then why?
>  -- richard
>
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> > --
> > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
> > www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902
> >
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

2015-02-25 Thread Richard Elling

> On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Tobias Oetiker  wrote:
> 
> experts!
> 
> If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for
> 512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn.
> 
> I know ZFS can deal with both ...
> 
> So what would be your choice, and WHY?

Better yet, what would be your requirements, then your choice, then why?
 -- richard

> 
> cheers
> tobi
> 
> -- 
> Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
> www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902
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Re: [OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

2015-02-25 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:17:35 +0100 (CET)
Tobias Oetiker  wrote:

> experts!
> 
> If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for
> 512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn.
> 
> I know ZFS can deal with both ...
> 
> So what would be your choice, and WHY?
> 
I would try to analyze the expected workload. Writing in small chunks
points at 512n while large chunks points towards 4Kn. Small chunks on
4Kn will waste a lot of space. If all else is equal the performance
should be the same. IMHO.

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[OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

2015-02-25 Thread Tobias Oetiker
experts!

If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for
512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn.

I know ZFS can deal with both ...

So what would be your choice, and WHY?

cheers
tobi

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