Nicholas Lee wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Richard Elling 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     In short, separate logs with rotating rust may reduce sync write
>     latency by
>     perhaps 2-10x on an otherwise busy system.  Using write optimized SSDs
>     will reduce sync write latency by perhaps 10x in all cases.  This
>     is one of
>     those situations where we can throw hardware at the problem to
>     solve it.
>
>
> Are the SSD devices Sun is using in the 7000s available for general 
> use?  Are they OEM parts or special items?
>

Yes, they are OEMed. See:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/STEC-Support-Suns-Unified-Storage/story.aspx?guid=%7B07043E00-7628-411D-B24A-2FFEC8B8F706%7D

The ZEUS product line makes a fine slog while the MACH8 product line
works nicely for L2ARC.
 -- richard

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