8 Jan
2010
8 Jan
'10
12:53 a.m.
Christopher Chan wrote:
Yes, the Sun Fire X4540 uses software raid but not necessarily zfs...if you install another operating system that is not Solaris or OpenSolaris, it won't be zfs.
the thing to note on the Thumper (X4540), each of those 48 SATA drives has its own channel to the system bus. I believe it uses 6 8-port SATA controllers, each attached to the Opteron's Hypertransport via PCI-Express x4. this means you can hit some really high aggregate IO speeds...