On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:40:24PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > > > On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >>> We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but > >>> not fast. > >> > >> Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something > >> better > >> next time, what have you found equally reliable but faster? > > > > Nothing as cheap as a full dl185 that's for sure unless you count > > SUNs thor > > (thumper ng) machines but then you'll have to do the raid part in > > software > > somehow. > > > Yeah, but that is as easy as > zpool create tank raidz2 dev1 dev2 dev3 dev4 dev5 dev6 etc. > zfs create tank/bigdisk > > > But I'd go one step further and use one of SUNs OpenStorage devices. > Once you have a lot of no-name JBOD SATA-drives, the inability of > Solaris to light-up the yellow light of the broken one will make it > painfully obvious that while one can spend to much on storage, one can > as easily spend too little... > ;-) > Uhm.. Solaris/zfs can't really light-up the failure lights on Sun's own hardware? -- Pasi