Thanks to everyone for such helpful and detailed answers. Contrary to some of the trolls in other threads, I've had a fantastic experience here, and am grateful to the community.
Based on the feedback, I'll upgrade my machine to 8 GB of RAM. I only have two slots on the motherboard, and either add two 2 GB DIMMs to add to the two I have there, or throw those away and start over with 4 GB DIMMs, which is not something I'm quite ready to do yet (before this is all working, for instance). Now, for the SSD, Crucial appears to have their (recommended above) C300 64 GB drive for $150, which seems like a good deal. Intel's X25M G2 is $200 for 80 GB. Does anyone have a strong opinion as to which would work better for the L2ARC? I am having a hard time understanding, from the performance numbers given, which would be a better choice. Finally, for my purposes, it doesn't seem like a ZIL is necessary? I'm the only user of the fileserver, so there probably won't be more than two or three computers, maximum, accessing stuff (and writing stuff) remotely. But, from what I can gather, by spending a little under $400, I should substantially increase the performance of my system with dedup? Many thanks, again, in advance. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
