On September 8, 2006 5:59:47 PM -0700 Richard Elling - PAE
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Ed Gould wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:35, Torrey McMahon wrote:
If I read between the lines here I think you're saying that the raid
functionality is in the chipset but the management can only be done by
softw
Ed Gould wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:35, Torrey McMahon wrote:
If I read between the lines here I think you're saying that the raid
functionality is in the chipset but the management can only be done by
software running on the outside. (Right?)
No. All that's in the chipset is enough to rea
> Dunno about eSATA jbods, but eSATA host ports have
> appeared on at least two HDTV-capable DVRs for storage
> expansion (looks like one model of the Scientific Atlanta
> cable box DVR's as well as on the shipping-any-day-now
> Tivo Series 3).
>
> It's strange that they didn't go with firewire
On Sep 8, 2006, at 14:22, Ed Gould wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 9:33, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
I was looking for a new AM2 socket motherboard a few weeks ago.
All of the ones
I looked at had 2xIDE and 4xSATA with onboard (SATA) RAID. All
were less than $150.
In other words, the days of ha
On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:35, Torrey McMahon wrote:
If I read between the lines here I think you're saying that the raid
functionality is in the chipset but the management can only be done by
software running on the outside. (Right?)
No. All that's in the chipset is enough to read a RAID volume f
Ed Gould wrote:
On Sep 8, 2006, at 9:33, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
I was looking for a new AM2 socket motherboard a few weeks ago. All
of the ones
I looked at had 2xIDE and 4xSATA with onboard (SATA) RAID. All were
less than $150.
In other words, the days of having a JBOD-only solution are
On Sep 8, 2006, at 9:33, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
I was looking for a new AM2 socket motherboard a few weeks ago. All
of the ones
I looked at had 2xIDE and 4xSATA with onboard (SATA) RAID. All were
less than $150.
In other words, the days of having a JBOD-only solution are over
except for
On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 09:33 -0700, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
> There has been some recent discussion about eSATA JBODs in the press. I'm not
> sure they will gain much market share. iPods and flash drives have a much
> larger
> market share.
Dunno about eSATA jbods, but eSATA host ports have
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I don't quite see this in my crystal ball. Rather, I see all of the SAS/SATA
chipset vendors putting RAID in the chipset. Basically, you can't get a
"dumb" interface anymore, except for fibre channel :-). In other words, if
we were to design a system in a chassis with
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:41:58AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Richard, when I talk about cheap JBOD I think about home users/small
> >servers/small companies. I guess you can sell 100 X4500 and at the same
> >time 1000 (or even more) cheap JBODs to the small compani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard, when I talk about cheap JBOD I think about home users/small
servers/small companies. I guess you can sell 100 X4500 and at the same
time 1000 (or even more) cheap JBODs to the small companies which for sure
will not buy the big boxes. Yes, I know, you earn more s
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:14:20PM -0700, Richard Elling - PAE wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >This is the case where I don't understand Sun's politics at all: Sun
> >doesn't offer really cheap JBOD which can be bought just for ZFS. And
> >don't even tell me about 3310/3320 JBODs - they are ho
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the case where I don't understand Sun's politics at all: Sun
doesn't offer really cheap JBOD which can be bought just for ZFS. And
don't even tell me about 3310/3320 JBODs - they are horrible expansive :-(
Yep, multipacks are EOL for some time now -- killed by b
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:59:53AM -0700, UNIX admin wrote:
> > My question is how efficient will ZFS be, given that
> > it will be layered on top of the hardware RAID and
> > write cache?
>
> ZFS delivers best performance when used standalone, directly on entire disks.
> By using ZFS on top of a
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