jgreco
Resident Grinch
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That's part of my point. You're spending some time to feel this out. The big shock most people get is why their 4GB Pentium 4 3.0GHz from 2005 isn't a good candidate for recycling. I mean, really, yeah, it ought to be able to serve files just fine - just not with ZFS (piggy piggy!).
I'm from the days of the VAX 11/750 and the AT&T UNIX PC, back when we *expanded* memory up to 1MB, so it's all shocking to me.
E5-2609, 16GB, a dozen 4TB drives in RAIDz3 on an IBM M1015 through a Supermicro SAS expander backplane (24 drive chassis). Reading five files simultaneously at a consistent 800MBytes/sec. Now the thing is, I don't necessarily consider that great performance since the individual drives are capable of 150MB/sec each. But that's the thing about ZFS. You lose a lot to overhead but you gain great features...
I'm from the days of the VAX 11/750 and the AT&T UNIX PC, back when we *expanded* memory up to 1MB, so it's all shocking to me.
E5-2609, 16GB, a dozen 4TB drives in RAIDz3 on an IBM M1015 through a Supermicro SAS expander backplane (24 drive chassis). Reading five files simultaneously at a consistent 800MBytes/sec. Now the thing is, I don't necessarily consider that great performance since the individual drives are capable of 150MB/sec each. But that's the thing about ZFS. You lose a lot to overhead but you gain great features...
