Hi, I know the general discussion is about flash SSD's connected through SATA/SAS or possibly PCI-E these days. So excuse me if I'm askign something that makes no sense...
I have a server that can hold 6 U320 SCSI disks. Right now I put in 5 300GB for a data pool, and 1 18GB for the root pool. I've been thinking lately that I'm not sure I like the root pool being unprotected, but I can't afford to give up another drive bay. So recently the idea occurred to me to go the other way. If I were to get 2 USB Flash Thunb drives say 16 or 32 GB each, not only would i be able to mirror the root pool, but I'd also be able to put a 6th 300GB drive into the data pool. That led me to wonder whether partitioning out 8 or 12 GB on a 32GB thumb drive would be beneficial as an slog?? I bet the USB bus won't be as good as SATA or SAS, but will it be better than the internal ZIL on the U320 drives? This seems like at least a "win-win", and possibly a "win-win-win". Is there some other reason I'm insane to consider this? -Kyle _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
