Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-20 Thread Andreas Grüninger
I did the same experiment in an VMWare guest (SLES10 x64). The archive was stored on the vdisk and untarring went to the same vdisk. The storage backend is sun system with 64 GB RAM, 2*QC cpus, 24 SAS disks with 450 GB, 4 vdevs with 6 disks as RAIDZ2, an Intel X25-E as log device (c2t1d0). A Stor

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-19 Thread Carson Gaspar
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Carson Gaspar wrote: Before (Mac OS 10.6.3 NFS client over GigE, local subnet, source file in RAM): carson:arthas 0 $ time tar jxf /Volumes/RamDisk/gcc-4.4.3.tar.bz2 real92m33.698s user0m20.291s sys 0m37.978s That's awful! ... tar j

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Carson Gaspar wrote: Before (Mac OS 10.6.3 NFS client over GigE, local subnet, source file in RAM): carson:arthas 0 $ time tar jxf /Volumes/RamDisk/gcc-4.4.3.tar.bz2 real92m33.698s user0m20.291s sys 0m37.978s That's awful! carson:arthas 130 $ time tar jxf

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-18 Thread Carson Gaspar
Carson Gaspar wrote: I just found an 8 GB SATA Zeus (Z4S28I) for £83.35 (~US$127) shipped to California. That should be more than large enough for my ZIL @home, based on zilstat. The web site says EOL, limited to current stock. http://www.dpieshop.com/stec-zeus-z4s28i-8gb-25-sata-ssd-solid-s

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:22:25PM -0700, Carson Gaspar wrote: > I just found an 8 GB SATA Zeus (Z4S28I) for £83.35 (~US$127) shipped to > California. That should be more than large enough for my ZIL @home, > based on zilstat. Transcend sells an 8 GByte SLC SSD for about 70 EUR. The specs are n

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:53:04PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > >> Disagree. Swap is a perfectly fine workload for SSDs. Under ZFS, > >> even more so. I'd really like to squash this rumour and thought we > >> were making progress on that front :-( Today, there are millions or > >> thousand

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 17:17 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: >> On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > > [snip] > >>> For L2ARC, you are more concerned with total size/capacity, and >>> modest IOPS (3000-1 IOPS, or the ability to writ

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 04/06/10 17:17, Richard Elling wrote: You could probably live with an X25-M as something to use for all three, but of course you're making tradeoffs all over the place. That would be better than almost any HDD on the planet because the HDD tradeoffs result in much worse performance. Indeed

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Erik Trimble
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 17:17 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: [snip] > > For L2ARC, you are more concerned with total size/capacity, and > > modest IOPS (3000-1 IOPS, or the ability to write at least 100Mb/s > > at 4-8k write sizes, plus as high as

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Carson Gaspar
Erik Trimble wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:26 -0700, Anil wrote: Seems a nice sale on Newegg for SSD devices. Talk about choices. What's the latest recommendations for a log device? http://bit.ly/aL1dne The Vertex LE models should do well as ZIL (though not as well as an X25-E or a Zeus)

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Elling
On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:43 -0400, Kyle McDonald wrote: >> On 4/6/2010 3:41 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:26 -0700, Anil wrote: >>> Seems a nice sale on Newegg for SSD devices. Talk about choices. What's the lates

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Erik Trimble
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:43 -0400, Kyle McDonald wrote: > On 4/6/2010 3:41 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:26 -0700, Anil wrote: > > > >> Seems a nice sale on Newegg for SSD devices. Talk about choices. What's > >> the latest recommendations for a log device? > >> > >> htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Kyle McDonald
On 4/6/2010 3:41 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:26 -0700, Anil wrote: > >> Seems a nice sale on Newegg for SSD devices. Talk about choices. What's the >> latest recommendations for a log device? >> >> http://bit.ly/aL1dne >> > The Vertex LE models should do well as ZIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Erik Trimble
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 08:26 -0700, Anil wrote: > Seems a nice sale on Newegg for SSD devices. Talk about choices. What's the > latest recommendations for a log device? > > http://bit.ly/aL1dne The Vertex LE models should do well as ZIL (though not as well as an X25-E or a Zeus) for all non-ent

[zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-06 Thread Anil
Seems a nice sale on Newegg for SSD devices. Talk about choices. What's the latest recommendations for a log device? http://bit.ly/aL1dne -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.o