[NCSA-discuss] RAID recommendations?

[Magnus]

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010, Dan Singer wrote:

> Thanks for all of the discussion so far.  ZFS is certainly a
> possibility, since the disk array will likely be connected to a Sun*
> Enterprise T5120.

I would be concerned right now about making any long term commitments to 
Sun technologies in a new major piece of infrastructure, what with Oracle 
appearing to be on a suicide course with their new acquisition and all.

> I do wonder about performance, though.  We currently have ZFS on a
> SunFire X4500 (server and disk array in one box), I've generally found
> it a bit pokey when copying data from it.

Look into adding an SSD as a ZIL device and report back. :)

Magnus