On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Robert Dupuy wrote:
I'm not here to promote the X-25E, however Sun does sell a rebadged X-25E in their own servers, and my particular salesman, spec'd both an X-25E based system, and an F20 based system....so they were clearly pitched against each other.
Sun salesmen don't always know what they are doing. The F20 likely cost more than the rest of the system. To date, no one here has posted any experience with the F20 so it must be assumed that to date it has only been used in the lab or under NDA.
People here dream of using it for the ZFS intent log but it is clear that this was not Sun's initial focus for the product.
As far as I'm assuming about Sun's .41ms benchmark methodology, really? am I sir? hardly.
Measuring and specifying access times for disk drives is much more straight-forward than for solid state devices.
I admit, I haven't posted here before, I registered precisely because google was showing this page as being a forum to discuss this card, and...just wanted to discuss it some.
This is a good place. We just have to wait until some "real world" users get their hands on some F20s without any NDA in place so that we can hear about their experiences.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
