IMHO it depends on the usage model. Mine is for home storage. A couple HD streams at most. 40mB/sec over a gigabit network switch is pretty good with me.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jacob Ritorto<jacob.rito...@gmail.com> wrote: > Torrey McMahon wrote: > >> 3) Performance isn't going to be that great with their design but...they >> might not need it. > > > Would you be able to qualify this assertion? Thinking through it a bit, > even if the disks are better than average and can achieve 1000Mb/s each, > each uplink from the multiplier to the controller will still have 1000Gb/s > to spare in the slowest SATA mode out there. With (5) disks per multiplier > * (2) multipliers * 1000GB/s each, that's 10000Gb/s at the PCI-e interface, > which approximately coincides with a meager 4x PCI-e slot. > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
