I could use the list's help. My goal: Build a cheap ZFS file server with OpenSolairs on UFS boot (for now) 10,000 rpm U320 SCSI drive while having a ZFS pool in the same machine. The ZFS pool will either be a mirror or raidz setup consisting of either two or three 500Gb 7,200 rpm SATA II drives.
I've been looking at building this setup in some cheap eBay rack-mount servers that are generally single or dual 1.0GHz Pentium III, 1Gb PC133 RAM, and I'd have to add the SATA II controller into a spare PCI slot. For maximum file system performance of the ZFS pool, would anyone care to offer hardware recommendations? Is this enough CPU and memory bandwidth to handle maximum realistic throughput of the SATA II drives with most of ZFS's features enabled? Thanks for any insights before I spend and find out the hard way!! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
