On Sep 30, 2008, at 19:09, Tim wrote: > SAS has far greater performance, and if your workload is extremely > random, > will have a longer MTBF. SATA drives suffer badly on random > workloads.
Well, if you can probably afford more SATA drives for the purchase price, you can put them in a striped-mirror set up, and that may help things. If your disks are cheap you can afford to buy more of them (space, heat, and power not withstanding). _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss