Re: OT - Multi-Terrabyte storage via ZFS for the home ;-)

[Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

I'm in the lucky position of using ZFS in an academic environment, we've
got 2 48 drive x4500s and one built in house system.

In our case ZFS just performs, and very well. With significant traffic
we've got multiple bonded gigabit ethernet serving ~120 clients we
seeing low performance hit on the CPU's of the x4500's (2x dual core
2.6GHz AMD opteron chips).

Feel free to get in touch if you'd like any more info.

Cheers

Stuart


On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 18:46 +0000, Richard Utting wrote:
> With 1TB HD's now around =A3130 ea inc VAT, www.scan.co.uk I have been
> thinking of the home storage holly grail . . . .  a dedicated host to
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> But what CPU and m/board combo would you guys recommend, say =A3250 +
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> Sun Open Source Solaris 10 would be the OS
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> I was figured get two SATA controllers these are listed on the SUN HCL
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> Supermicro 8 Port SATA 2 Card (PCI/PCI-X) AOC-SAT2-MV8 =A366 ea
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> Monster case =3D CoolerMaster Stacker RC-810 Black Tower 11 Bays
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> Just 3 HD's to start with and feed them in as required or rather as
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> Has anyone done anything similar ?
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> TIA
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