On Fri, February 19, 2010 13:50, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >>> Too bad, I'm getting ~1000 IOPS with an Intel X25-M G2 MLC and around >>> 300 with a regular USB stick, so 50 IOPS is really poor for an SLC SSD. >> >> Well, but the Intel X25-M is the drive that really first cracked the >> problem (earlier high-performance drives were hideously expensive and >> rather brute force). Which was relatively recently. The industry is >> still evolving rapidly. > > What is the problem is it that the X25-M cracked? The X25-M is > demonstrated to ignore cache sync and toss transactions. As such, it > is useless for a ZIL.
But it's finally useful as, for example, a notebook boot drive. No previous vaguely affordable design was. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss