Getting off-topic, but Compellent, now Dell, is the first SAN appliance recommendation we make to our customers based on their customer support. It would take A LOT of testimony to convince me they...
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Getting off-topic, but Compellent, now Dell, is the first SAN appliance recommendation we make to our customers based on their customer support. It would take A LOT of testimony to convince me they...
Read the storagereview.com article. Same NAND, fewer channels.
Prices are up from a link to Amazon in the StorageReview article.
$98 for 60GB
$145 for 120GB
$220 for 180GB
With 10 900GB drives, RAID5 with 1 spare is all you need. The expected rebuild time doesn't warrant the extra fault tolerance and loss of capacity for this application in my opinion. If capacity...
For anyone else reading this discussion, if you only take away one thing, it should be this fact. Know your work load.
256GB RAM? Ditch the hardware and go ZFS.
I was going to suggest hdparm as well - https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/articles/a/t/a/ATA_Secure_Erase_936d.html. Boot Linux with SystemRescueCD from a USB stick -...
My guess - a block device is a block device and any caching would be done in software. The port is limited to 3Gb/s, however.
PCIe 1.0 4x has a theoretical bandwidth of 1GB/s and PCIe 2.0 4x is 2GB/s, so your hard drives will be the limiting factor before the PCIe bus unless you are using SSDs.
I'd be surprised if you encountered PCIe compatibility issues with any of those cards and your Gigabyte board, though it's not out of the question. Are you willing to eat the return costs for the...
Nothing beats the warm glow of a tube amp! I've since switched to the SPDIF input on my Valab NOS DAC, though I haven't noticed much of a difference. I've got the fever, unfortunately, and have...
Do you mind explaining the goal of this project? It sounds like you're trying to convert a box currently running a flavor of Windows to an ESX host, correct? If you can, avoid the physical to...
Check the VMware HCL to verify compatibility, first. http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=io
There probably won't be much in the way of noticeable performance...
Software. :D
On topic, my personal experiences would sway me toward the LSI as I've used their HBAs and controllers at work and home for years with great results at the hardware and firmware...
Your decision completely depends on your data set and expected growth rate. Without knowing this information, I would highly recommend the DS411+II. I've deployed two of these units for the same...
Sorry, getting a bit off-topic...
No, I had no idea. I'm currently using two M4 drives with 09 firmware attached to a 9211-8i and provisioned(DirectPath I/O) to an ESXi v5 OpenIndiana VM for SLOG...
STEC should not be overlooked for deployments where reliability is just as important as performance, if they are within reach of your budget - http://stec-inc.com.
I would assume this to include only SAS expanders, not drives connected directly to controllers. I'm not familiar with your setup, though, so you may actually be using an expander.
It would have been months before I discovered this update on my own. Thanks for the link!
I agree and will add that Lenovo makes it ridiculously easy to install drivers and software with their system update utility. You'll probably use vendor-specific drivers anyway, but the utility...
That 1.3GHz Willy was in the box that got me addicted to overclocking and hardware. I had nowhere to go but up! Just thank someone we're no longer using RDRAM. :D
I'll throw Synology into the mix of readymade NAS providers. I've deployed several different models for backup to disk and replication purposes and have been impressed.
It's a lot of fun to roll...
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Agreed. I am using 7200RPM Hitachi Deskstars with ZFS after getting confirmation from the OpenSolaris mailing list that they behave well with RAID/ZFS. Even though ZFS is not RAID, the command set...
Nice! Potentially cheaper and carries with it tasty satisfaction.
