I have a few old drives here that I thought might help me a little, though not at much as a nice SSD, for those uses. I'd like to speed up NFS writes, and there have been some mentions that even a decent HDD can do this, though not to the same level a good SSD will.
The 3 drives are older LVD SCSI Cheetah drives. ST318203LW. I have 2 controllers I could use, one appears to be a RAID controller with a memory module installed. An Adaptec AAA-131U2. The memory module comes up on Google as a 2MB EDO DIMM. Not sure that's worth anything to me. :) The other controller is an Adaptec 29160. Looks to be a 64-bit PCI card, but the machine it came from is only 32-bit PCI, as is my current machine. What say the pros here? I'm concerned that the max data rate is going to be somewhat low with them, but the seek time should be good as they are 10K RPM (I think). The only reason I thought to use one for L2ARC is for dedupe. It sounds like L2ARC helps a lot there. This is for a home server, so all I'm really looking to do is speed things up a bit while I save and look for a decent SSD option. However, if it's a waste of time, I'd rather find out before I install them. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
