On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Colin Raven <co...@clearcutnetworks.com>wrote:
> Hi all! > I've decided to take the "big jump" and build a ZFS home filer (although it > might also do "other work" like caching DNS, mail, usenet, bittorent and so > forth). YAY! I wonder if anyone can shed some light on how long a pool scrub > would take on a fairly decent rig. These are the specs as-ordered: > > Asus P5Q-EM mainboard > Core2 Quad 2.83 GHZ > 8GB DDR2/80 > > OS: > 2 x SSD's in RAID 0 (brand/size not decided on yet, but they will > definitely be some flavor of SSD) > > Data: > 4 x 1TB Samsung Spin Point 7200 RPM 32MB cache SATA HD's (RAIDZ) > > Data payload initially will be around 550GB or so, (before loading any > stuff from another NAS and so on) > > Does scrub like memory, or CPU, or both? There's enough horsepower > available, I would think. Same question applies to resilvering if I need to > swap out drives at some point. [cough] I can't wait to get this thing built! > :) > > Regards & TIA, > > Your just-subscribed total ZFS n00b, > -Me > > The OS doesn't really have a need for ssd's. You'd be better off getting a large SATA drive for your OS and using the ssd's as readzilla/logzilla. I think everyone will also tell you to get ECC ram. To do this cheaply, it generally means going the AMD route. -- --Tim
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