On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:33:23PM -0600, Al Hopper wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Thomas Burgess <wonsl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm PRETTY sure the kingston drives i ordered are as good/better > > > > i just didnt' know that they weren't "good enough" > > I disagree that those drives are "good enough". That particular drive > uses the dreaded JMicron controller - which has a really bad > reputation. And a poor reputation that it *earned* and deserves. > Even though these drives use a newer revision of the original JMicron > part (that basically sucks) - this one is *not* much better. Have a
meandering off topic here ... i use one of those 64G kingston jmicron/toshiba drives in my mac. The "stuttering" problems attributed to the older jmicron drives are non-existent with this one in my experience. I have not done anything to optimize for slow writes (eg, disable browser disk cache). The overall performance improvement on my system is huge, due to the very-fast reads. Mine is old enough and full enough that all cells have been written to at this point. Overall I am very pleased with the drive, especially for the price paid. I agree with Al that it probably isn't suitable as a ZIL. Maybe as a read cache though. danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 Winter 2010 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs Hosted by the University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT January 31 - February 4, 2010 http://events.internet2.edu/2010/jt-slc/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
