On 22.03.2010 16:24, Cooper Hubbell wrote:
I've moved to 7200RPM 2.5" laptop drives over 3.5"
drives, for a
combination of reasons: lower-power, better
performance than a
comparable sized 3.5" drives, and generally
lower-capacities meaning
resilver times are smaller. They're a bit more $/GB,
but not a lot.
If you can stomach the extra cost (they run $220),
I'd actually
recommend getting a 8x2.5" in 2x5.25" enclosure from
Supermicro. It
works nicely, plus it gives you a nice little place
to put your SSD. :-)
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Erik Trimble
Java System Support
Mailstop: usca22-123
Phone: x17195
Santa Clara, CA
Regarding the 2.5" laptop drives, do the inherent error detection properties of
ZFS subdue any concerns over a laptop drive's higher bit error rate or rated MTBF?
I've been reading about OpenSolaris and ZFS for several months now and am incredibly
intrigued, but have yet to implement the solution in my lab.
Well ... the price difference means you can have mirrors of the laptop
drives and still save money compared to the "enterprise" ones. With a
modern patrol-reading (scrub or hardware raid) array-setup, and with
some redundancy, you can re-implement "I" to mean "inexpensive" not
"independent" in RAID. ;)
//Svein
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