Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-29 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Krunal Desai wrote: > > There are problems with Sandforce controllers, according to forum posts. > Buggy firmware. And in practice, Sandforce is far below it's theoretical > values. I expect Intel to have fewer problems. > > I believe it's more the firmware (and p

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Krunal Desai
> There are problems with Sandforce controllers, according to forum posts. > Buggy firmware. And in practice, Sandforce is far below it's theoretical > values. I expect Intel to have fewer problems. I believe it's more the firmware (and pace of firmware updates) from companies making Sandforce-

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM, David Magda wrote: > On Nov 27, 2010, at 16:14, Tim Cook wrote: > > You don't need drivers for any SATA based SSD. It shows up as a standard >> hard drive and plugs into a standard SATA port. By the time the G3 Intel >> drive is out, the next gen Sandforce sho

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > There are problems with Sandforce controllers, according to forum posts. > Buggy firmware. And in practice, Sandforce is far below it's theoretical > values. I expect Intel to have fewer problems. > > Accordin

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Orvar Korvar
There are problems with Sandforce controllers, according to forum posts. Buggy firmware. And in practice, Sandforce is far below it's theoretical values. I expect Intel to have fewer problems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread David Magda
On Nov 27, 2010, at 16:14, Tim Cook wrote: You don't need drivers for any SATA based SSD. It shows up as a standard hard drive and plugs into a standard SATA port. By the time the G3 Intel drive is out, the next gen Sandforce should be out as well. Unless Intel does something revolution

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am waiting for the next gen Intel SSD drives, G3. They are arriving very > soon. And from what I can infer by reading here, I can use it without > issues. Solaris will recognize the Intel SDD drive without a

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Moazam Raja
Agreed, SSD with SandForce controllers are the only way to go. The controller makes a world of difference. -Moazam On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Tim Cook wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Orvar Korvar > wrote: >> >> "Your system drive on a Solaris system generally doesn't see e

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Orvar Korvar
I am waiting for the next gen Intel SSD drives, G3. They are arriving very soon. And from what I can infer by reading here, I can use it without issues. Solaris will recognize the Intel SDD drive without any drivers needed, or whatever? Intel new SSD should work with Solaris 11 Express, yes? -

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Chris Mosetick
A word of caution on the Silicon Image 3124. I have tested out a two extremely cheap card using the si3124 driver on b134 and OIb147. One card was PCI, the other PCI-X. I found that both are unusable until the driver is updated. Large'ish file transfers, say over 1GB would lock up the machine a

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > "Your system drive on a Solaris system generally doesn't see enough I/O > activity to require the kind of IOPS you can get out of most modern SSD's. " > > My system drive sees a lot of activity, to the degree

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Orvar Korvar
"Your system drive on a Solaris system generally doesn't see enough I/O activity to require the kind of IOPS you can get out of most modern SSD's. " My system drive sees a lot of activity, to the degree everything is going slow. I have a SunRay that my girlfriend use, and I have 5-10 torrents go

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 01:19:50PM -0600, Tim Cook wrote: > They're a standard SATA hard drive. You can use them for whatever you'd > like. For the price though, they aren't really worth the money to buy just > to put your OS on. Your system drive on a Solaris system generally doesn't > see en

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > A noob question: > > These drives that people talk about, can you use them as a system disc too? > Install Solaris 11 Express on them? Or can you only use them as a L2ARC or > Zil? > -- > > They're a standard

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Orvar Korvar
A noob question: These drives that people talk about, can you use them as a system disc too? Install Solaris 11 Express on them? Or can you only use them as a L2ARC or Zil? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-di

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > > > In fact, I recently got one of these Samsung drives... > > http://tinyurl.com/38s3ac3 > > The spec sheet says sequential read 220MB/s, sequential write 120MB/s... > > Which is 2-4 times faster than the best SATA disk out t

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-26 Thread moazam
What kind of testing did you do on the Samsung SSD? I've used FusionIO cards to get upwards of 500MB/s writes and OCZ Deneva SSD (SATA) drives to get 200-250MB/s writes. In many cases the trick is to make sure you have a sufficient amount of threads doing writes in order to get optimal perf

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Karel Gardas > > Thank you Christopher and Edward for all the detailed information provided. > Indeed DDRDrive looks like a right tool for fast ZIL, but for my development > workstation I'm rat

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-26 Thread Karel Gardas
Thank you Christopher and Edward for all the detailed information provided. Indeed DDRDrive looks like a right tool for fast ZIL, but for my development workstation I'm rather searching for l2arc cache where as you note ReviDrive might do the nice job. Thanks, Karel -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Karel Gardas > > I'm curious if there is a support for OCZ RevoDrive SSD or any other SSD > hooked directly on PCIe in Solaris. This RevoDrive looks particularly > interesting for its low price

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-25 Thread Christopher George
> I'm curious if there is a support for OCZ RevoDrive SSD or any other > SSD hooked directly on PCIe in Solaris. The RevoDrive should not require a custom device driver as it is based on the Silicon Image 3124 PCI-X RAID controller connected to a Pericom PCI-X to PCIe bridge chip (PI7C9X130). T