dick hoogendijk wrote: > > Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> >>> > WD Caviar Black drive [...] Intel E7200 2.53GHz 3MB L2 >>> >>> > The P45 based boards are a no-brainer >>> >>> >>> >>> 16G of DDR2-1066 with P45 or >>> >>> 8G of ECC DDR2-800 with 3210 based boards >>> >>> >>> >>> That is the question. >>> >>> >> >> I guess the answer is how valuable is your data? >> >> > > I disagree. The answer is: go for the 16G and make backups.
getting corruption passing through zil onto disk is a risk, perhaps smaller if metadata, (sole risk to pool integrity) but random system crashes and crupt answers from the arc cache should be expected with 16G filled for months. (still, might not be an issue for a single home user, but if your married it might be :-) the Enterprise version of the above drive is http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=503 possibly with a desirable faster timeout. Rob _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
