On 18 apr 2010, at 00.52, Dave Vrona wrote: > Ok, so originally I presented the X-25E as a "reasonable" approach. After > reading the follow-ups, I'm second guessing my statement. > > Any decent alternatives at a reasonable price?
How much is reasonable? :-) I guess there are STEC drives that should work for slogs (ZIL devices), but I haven't tried them yet, and not read about many that has, except in euphoric reports from Sun users that got them from Sun. Would be really interesting to try. I think Sun/Oracle actually has sold X25-Es themselves, possibly with Sun/Oracle firmware. I don't know if those drives are as bad as the Intel branded ones. For l2arc, about any drive would do, I think, it is just not critical for the file system in any way (but could be critical for your application). I'd also really like to hear the zfs developers' view on this subject, I guess they have tested many of these drives and problems in their labs. /ragge _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
