My work has bought a bunch of IBM servers recently as ESX hosts. They all come
with LSI SAS1068E controllers as standard, which we remove and upgrade to a
raid 5 controller.
So I had a bunch of them lying around. We've bought a 16x SAS hotswap case and
I've put in an AMD X4 955 BE with an ASUS
I am currently doing research on how much memory ZFS should have for a storage
server.
I came across this blog
http://constantin.glez.de/blog/2010/04/ten-ways-easily-improve-oracle-solaris-zfs-filesystem-performance
It recommends that for every TB of storage you have you want 1GB of RAM just
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