> A STEC Zeus IOPS SSD (45K IOPS) will behave quite differently than an Intel > X-25E (~3.3K IOPS). Where can you even get the Zeus drives? I thought they were only in the OEM market and last time I checked they were ludicrously expensive. I'm looking for between 5k and 10k IOPS using up to 4 drive bays (so a 2 x 2 striped mirror would be fine). Right now we peak at about 3k IOPS (though that's not to a ZFS system) but I would like to be able to be able to burst to double that. We do have a lot of small size burst writes hence our ZIL concerns.
> A SRAM or DRAM-based "drive" (with FLASH backup) will behave dramatically differently than a typical SSD. As long as it can speak SAS or SATA and I can put it in a drive shelf I'd happily consider using it. All the DRAM devices I know are host based and that won't help my cluster. On that note- what write optimized SSD's do you recommend? I don't actually know where to buy the Zeus drives even if they've become more reasonably priced. Thanks for taking the time to share- it's been very informative. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
