Roger Solano wrote:
Hello,

Does it make any sense to use a bunch of 15K SAS drives as L2ARC cache for several TBs of SATA disks?

For example:

A STK2540 storage array with this configuration:

    * Tray 1: Twelve (12) 146 GB @ 15K SAS HDDs.


Alternatively, you can purchase non-Sun 500 GByte read-optimized SSDs.
OTOH, if the disks are already in place, then you can experiment with
L2ARC devices and, if you don't like the results, zpool remove them from
the pool.
-- richard

    * Tray 2: Twelve (12) 1 TB @ 7200 SATA HDDs.

I was thinking about using disks from Tray 1 as L2ARC for Tray 2 and put all of these disks in one (1) zfs storage pool.

This pool would be used mainly as astronomical images repository, shared via NFS over a Sun Fire X2200.

Is it worth to do?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,
Roger


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Región ACC - Venezuela


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