Yep, Solaris ZFS kicks butt. It does RAID10/5/6, etc and implements most of the high end features available on high end SANs... - Luke On 9/18/06 8:40 PM, "Alex Turner" <armtuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sweet - thats good - RAID 10 support seems like an odd thing to leave out. > > Alex > > On 9/18/06, Luke Lonergan < llonergan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:llonergan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> Alex, >> >> On 9/18/06 4:14 PM, "Alex Turner" < armtuk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Be warned, the tech specs page: >>> http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/specs.xml#anchor3 >>> <http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/specs.xml#anchor3> >>> doesn't mention RAID 10 as a possible, and this is probably what most would >>> recommend for fast data access if you are doing both read and write >>> operations. If you are doing mostly Read, then RAID 5 is passable, but it's >>> redundancy with large numbers of drives is not so great. >> >> RAID10 works great on the X4500 we get 1.6GB/s + per X4500 using RAID10 in >> ZFS. We worked with the Sun Solaris kernel team to make that happen and the >> patches are part of Solaris 10 Update 3 due out in November. >> >> - Luke >> >> > >
