Hello all,
I am doing some preliminary research on purchasing a NAS. Basically looking at a system using one of the new C2750 Chips with 16GB-32GB of Ram or a Synology 1515+ with the C2550 chip.
My understanding is that there are a lot of benefits with respect to reliability when using ZFS and with that come some sacrifices with respect to performance unless you have adequate hardware.
So that being said I'm trying to understand what the limitations are for a ZFS Server with 16GB - 32GB of Ram. Specifically, if I intend to use a database like application which produces a number of both small, medium and large files should my expectation be that I can't run something like this directly on ZFS over CIFS or SCSI with the expectation that performance will be reasonable?
I guess what I am trying to understand is where ZFS will excel with respect to performance and where it will lag in comparison to a Synology like system. I already expect ZFS to work quite well as a media server, but I'm trying to get a better understanding of how it does when feeding a multi threaded high IO application which has several files scattered across the file system.
I appreciate any input.
I am doing some preliminary research on purchasing a NAS. Basically looking at a system using one of the new C2750 Chips with 16GB-32GB of Ram or a Synology 1515+ with the C2550 chip.
My understanding is that there are a lot of benefits with respect to reliability when using ZFS and with that come some sacrifices with respect to performance unless you have adequate hardware.
So that being said I'm trying to understand what the limitations are for a ZFS Server with 16GB - 32GB of Ram. Specifically, if I intend to use a database like application which produces a number of both small, medium and large files should my expectation be that I can't run something like this directly on ZFS over CIFS or SCSI with the expectation that performance will be reasonable?
I guess what I am trying to understand is where ZFS will excel with respect to performance and where it will lag in comparison to a Synology like system. I already expect ZFS to work quite well as a media server, but I'm trying to get a better understanding of how it does when feeding a multi threaded high IO application which has several files scattered across the file system.
I appreciate any input.
