I'm building my new storage server, all the parts should come in this week.
Intel XEON W3520 quad-core 12G DDR3-1333 ECC ram 2*74G 15K rpm SAS for OS 8*1T SATA disks in raiz2 or stripe 2 sets of 4-disk raidz 32G Intel X25-E SSD (may mirror it later) 2*Intel 82574L NIC Qlogic 4Gb QLE2460 FC HBA I have 8 SAS ports plus 6 SATA ports on motherboard, with the above config, I still have 2 SAS ports free to expand, I'm thinking of adding Supermicro 2.5in mobile rack with SAS expander later using the 2 SAS ports or add another SAS HBA. You may want to replace i7-940 with XEON version and use ECC memory. ZFS doesn't like RAID controller, at least my old SCSI raid with BBU cache. I had LSI megaraid 320-4x with onboard 128M BBU cache, the performance is horrible no matter how I tweak it. I replaced the raid controller with LSI 21320 SCSI card, everything flies. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
