@whitetr6 Good catch!
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Mark Creamer <[email protected]> wrote: > Careful with that link... I believe you actually want goharddrive.com (2 > "d") > > The other one looks like a potential malware trap. :-) > > mc > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Jack Downes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'd have to echo Sebastian mostly. Zfs is great, but the underlying >> hardware is... what is. add another 1 tb drive and put that as Raid 10 >> (stripe the mirrors), and it'll perform pretty decently. You'd be >> surprised. If you have the money, yeah, SSD is fantastic, but wow... if >> you are trying to get reasonable size, you'll spend some cash. Perhaps in >> this case that doesn't matter. If you have the money for SSD drives, you >> might consider getting 4 reasonable 2TB drives (they sell them for $50 >> each on gohardrive.com anymore for WD RE4 or Hitachi Ultrastars now), >> and then putting some budget into a smartOS compatible PCI-SSD drive. Be >> careful on that - it's easy to get the wrong drive, but it's not that hard >> to get the right one either! That way you'd have your 4 spindles, raid 10 >> with a slog, it'd be decent that way, IMHO. >> >> On 06/15/2015 07:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> one of my clients owns a supermicro-based box with 4 hot-swap sata bays. >>> it has integrated SATA and (i believe) no SAS. the original admin populated >>> it with (3) 1TB SATA disks and commissioned it as a fileserver (simple >>> raid5). it has 32GB of memory. the box is no longer being used, so it's >>> been allocated to me for the purpose of hosting another windows server. i'd >>> like to virtualize the server via smartos/kvm but i have reservations. >>> >>> i believe i can get away with using only 16GB for VMs, so that leaves >>> 16GB for smartos/zfs - i think that'll probably work well. but i seriously >>> doubt those disks will give anything resembling decent performance. i only >>> have 4 bays to work with, and only one is currently free. for a windows >>> server VM hosting a multi-user database, would adding a SATA SSD as log >>> device for the zones zpool keep me out of hot water here or is this just >>> not going to work? >>> >>> obviously i can try to source a supported SAS controller and disks, but >>> i'm wondering if i can actually get by with SATA ... what if i filled the >>> (4) 3.5" bays with SSDs and striped across two mirrors? would that mostly >>> guarantee decent performance, or will that just waste time and money? >>> >>> experienced opinions greatfully accepted! >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> smartos-discuss >>> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now >>> RSS Feed: >>> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/26849696-e427f2da >>> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >>> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >>> >> >> -- >> Jack Downes >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> smartos-discuss >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now >> RSS Feed: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/23055384-4ad60763 >> Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> > > > > -- > Mark > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27088356-7e8b0922> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
