Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about consumer drives and zfs can someone help?

2010-07-24 Thread JavaWebDev
On 7/24/2010 8:12 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Russ Price Good advice - ZFS can use quite a lot of CPU cycles. A low-end AMD quad-core is I know "a lot of CPU cycles" is a relative term. But I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about consumer drives and zfs can someone help?

2010-07-23 Thread JavaWebDev
On 7/23/2010 3:39 AM, tomwaters wrote: There is alot there to reply to...but I will try and help... Re. TLER. Do not worry about TLER when using ZFS. ZFS will handle it either way and will NOT time out and drop the drive...it may wait a long time, but it will not time out and drop the drive -

Re: [zfs-discuss] [?] - What is the recommended number of disks for a consumer PC with ZFS

2010-07-22 Thread JavaWebDev
You haven't stated what you intend to use your pc for and what your requirements are. Without that I don't see how anyone can come up with an optimal configuration. So... what do you plan to do with your pc? Do you want the fastest performance and don't care about anything else? use all SSDs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Confused about consumer drives and zfs can someone help?

2010-07-22 Thread JavaWebDev
Using a new email client and didn't notice that I didn't reply to the list. Since it might be helpful to others here are the missing bits. On 7/21/2010 5:07 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: We use the 500 GB versions attached to 3Ware controllers (configured as Single Disk arrays). They work quite ni

[zfs-discuss] Confused about consumer drives and zfs can someone help?

2010-07-21 Thread JavaWebDev
I wanted to build a small back up (maybe also NAS) server using OpenSolaris and ZFS using consumer drives but after reading a number of threads and blogs I'm totally confused and was hoping I could get some questions answered since many people have been using consumer drives with zfs. When Z