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On 8/7/2010 4:11 PM, Terry Hull wrote: > > It is just that lots of the PERC controllers do not do JBOD very well. I've > done it several times making a RAID 0 for each drive. Unfortunately, that > means the server has lots of RAID hardware that is not utilized very well. Doing that lets you use the cache, which is the only part of the RAID HW that I'd worry about wasting. > Also, ZFS loves to see lots of spindles, and Dell boxes tend not to have > lots of drive bays in comparison to what you can build at a given price > point. I've found the R515 (the R510's cousing with AMD processors) to be very interesting in this regard. It has many more drive bays than most Dell boxes. I've also priced out the IBM x3630 M3, even more drive bays in this one. for about %20 more. > Of course then you have warranty / service issues to consider. > I don't know what you're needs are, but I found dell's 5yr onsite 10x5 NBD support to be priced very attractively. But I can live with a machine being down till the next day, or through a weekend. -Kyle > -- > Terry Hull > Network Resource Group, Inc. > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMyZFEAAoJEEADRM+bKN5wTr4IAIh1LzIcm346TVcRZdKwkbgW EkFux2ZT8uzk/v1lXqgiDCkO0zQ/Bwpk9SsSa0KOblOxKRWPYQwj2pO30syX/QnR 82aFfhcJaWmf0H3aphoowqTTDhKRefYXgbPINaVafDV8JY8tN9d0+Tcnhv03n3pq 7Eafg+RbjaZPceZxDuNQ0xJFw+cpXvOYSFAcCB+E49actOqDIErf4A2xGL96PK7k POu1bHN5qyIsca6t76nvuR7w8+yq6FfM4HY0KahyPhx/MXjp01N7vFyQKdLF5rGU ByliQedo7r8OsLl6BxeMwv+SBNxab4sjqWpWfTzniLk1Ng6aG3mm5YQ7/iAUZ+0= =FDkN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
