On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tim <t...@tcsac.net> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I do not believe you can achieve five 9s with current consumer disk >> drives for an extended period, say >1 year. > > Just to pipe up, while very few vendors can pull it off, we've seen five 9's > with Hitachi gear using SATA.
Can you specify the hardware? I've recently switched to LSI SAS1068E controllers and am swimmingly happy. (That's my $.02 - controllers (not surprisingly) affect the niceness of a software RAID solution like ZFS quite a bit - maybe even more than the actual drives...?) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
