On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Joe Esposito <j...@j-espo.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, <casper....@sun.com> wrote: > >> >> >I'm using opensolaris and zfs at my house for my photography storage >> >as well as for an offsite backup location for my employer and several >> >side web projects. >> > >> >I have an 80g drive as my root drive. I recently took posesion of 2 >> >74g 10k drives which I'd love to add as a mirror to replace the 80 g >> >drive. >> >> Why do you want to use a small 10K rpm disk? >> >> A modern 1TB disk at 5400/7200 rpm (at $100) will put it to shame. >> >> Casper >> > > fair enough. I just have a pair of these sitting here from a pull at work. > The data array is currently 4x1TB with another hot swap bay ready for 4x??? > when the need arises. > That's not entirely true. Maybe it will put it to shame at streaming sequential I/O. The 10k drives will still wipe the floor with any modern 7200rpm drive for random IO and seek times. --Tim
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