> Where's the beef? > > I sense a lot of smoke and mirrors here, similar to Intel's recent CPU > "announcements" which don't even reveal the number of cores. No > prices and funny numbers that the writers of > technical articles can't seem to get straight. > > Obviously these are a significant improvement for laptop drives but > how many laptop users have a need for 11,000 IOPs and 170MB/s?
Err, laptop drives? Who cares about laptop drives. 170MB/s writes and 11,000 IOPS? I'll take four please for my ZFS log device! Seriously, I don't even care about the cost. Even with the smallest capacity, four of those gives me 128GB of write cache supporting 680MB/s and 40k IOPS. Show me a hardware raid controller that can even come close to that. Four of those will strain even 10GB/s Infiniband. Plus, if Intel are comparing these with 5400rpm drives, and planning them for the laptop market I can't see them being too expensive. Certainly worth the money. for ZFS. Personally I'd like to see something that mounts on a PCIe card, but if I need to I'll happily start bolting 2.5" SSD's to the sides of my server cases! Ross This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
