Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:34:09PM -0700, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Brandon High wrote: > > > > The 20GB 311 only costs ~ $100 though. The 100GB Intel 710 costs ~ $650. > > > > The 311 is a good choice for home or budget users, and it seems that > > the 710 is much bigger than i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Brandon High wrote: The 20GB 311 only costs ~ $100 though. The 100GB Intel 710 costs ~ $650. The 311 is a good choice for home or budget users, and it seems that the 710 is much bigger than it needs to be for slog devices. Much too big is a good thing if it results in muc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 01:21:26PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > It seems to perform similarly to the X-25E as well (3300 IOPS for > > random writes).  Perhaps the drive can be overprovisioned as well? > > > > My impression was that Intel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > It seems to perform similarly to the X-25E as well (3300 IOPS for > random writes).  Perhaps the drive can be overprovisioned as well? > > My impression was that Intel was classifying the 3xx series as > non-Enterprise however.  Even with t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wrong path in zpool

2011-09-22 Thread Jussi Sallinen
Hi, Haven't yet ever needed to deal with such scenario (and hopefully will ever not), but this is what I'd try: -Connect the disks back to Linux boxen. -(zpool import the disks in case previous import DID succeed on Linux) -Try to do # zpool export -If it fails try to do # export -f Let's hop

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:46:42PM -0700, Brandon High wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Markus Kovero > wrote: > > Hi, I was wondering do you guys have any recommendations as replacement for > > Intel X25-E as it is being EOL’d? Mainly as for log device. > > The Intel 311 seems like a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deskstars and CCTL (aka TLER)

2011-09-22 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: > Looks like another positive for these drives over the "competition". > The same appears to be the case for the 5k3000's as well (page 96 in > that document). Be careful with the smaller 5k3000 drives. The 1TB and 2TB drives are not manufact

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:21 AM, Markus Kovero wrote: > Hi, I was wondering do you guys have any recommendations as replacement for > Intel X25-E as it is being EOL’d? Mainly as for log device. The Intel 311 seems like a good fit. It's a 20gb SLC device intended to act as a cache device with the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacement for X25-E

2011-09-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Sep 21 at 10:32, Markus Kovero wrote: I'd say price range around same than X25-E was, main priorities being predictable latency and performance. Also write wear shouldn't get an issue when writing 150MB/s 24/7 365. At 150MB/s continuously, you're writing 5PB/year (assuming a write ampli

[zfs-discuss] Wrong path in zpool

2011-09-22 Thread Laszlo Beres
Hi all, once I made a mistake and tried to import a zpool on Linux. Now I'm having the following problem under Solaris 11 Express: root@blondie:~# zdb -l /dev/dsk/c3t1d0s0 -- LABEL 0 -- timestamp: 1316706103 UTC:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Beginner Question: Limited conf: file-based storage pools vs. FSs directly on rpool

2011-09-22 Thread Remco Lengers
Raul, > I must configure a small file server. It only has two disk drives, and they are (forcibly) destined to be used in a mirrored, hot-spare configuration. 2 disks and mirrored *and* a hotspare ...?? Imho you need 3 disks to do this setup. I just wanted to make sure you have your idea's