Re: p800 and HP

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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...
;-)

If you really want to go with a HW controller, try Areca or the high- 
end 3Ware models.

As mentioned in any ZFS document, when you use a HW-raidcontroller,  
the OS never knows if a drive is broken or showing errors. The HW  
hides that from the OS.
You have to have closed-source drivers like the HP utils to tell you  
that.

If your data-set will, over the lifespan of that server, never grow  
beyond the original size of the array, then you can go with a HW- 
raidcontroller.
Otherwise, go ZFS.




Rainer
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