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Re: My new toy

2013-09-18T19:44:51+02:00

Temporary installation.

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I need another 16 drives. I'm thinking about getting some SSD's and some normal 2TB SATA drives. Wan't to see what ZFS does when you through lots of memory at it with a decent a 10Gb NIC. Apparently ZFS cache is the shit. I want to test with 200GB-300GB cache on the SSD's and 64GB of ram and normal SATA's for the real storage.

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I just love this description.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS

ZFS is a 128-bit file system, so it can address 1.84 × 1019 times more data than 64-bit systems such as Btrfs. The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they would never be encountered.
For instance, let us assume we had a zpool filled up with 2^128 bytes of data, and we used typical Enterprise 300GB hard disks for storage, then the mass of all those hard disks would equal 1000 moons. The energy needed to power all those hard disks would be so large that if we converted 1kg of mass to pure energy with Einsteins E=mc^2 formula, and if we converted all water on earth, that energy would suffice to power all hard disks for only four months. Copying data to a hard disk requires moving electrons to the hard disk, and the amount of electrons to move would require so much energy it would literally boil all oceans. With current technology, humanity can not fill up even a single zpool. https://blogs.oracle.com/dcb/entry/zfs_ ... n_consumes

Statistics: Posted by Cuddles — 18 Sep 2013, 19:44

Re: My new toy

2013-09-01T20:31:11+02:00

I'm not sure to be honest, that one is just storage for this one. 16 Cores
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This can take up to 384GB. I have two of them that is making their way towards being part of the same cluster. Currently they serve different roles, but share storage through the StoreVirtual (+another 6 servers that forms part of the SAN). Performance isn't bad, I see 300MB/sec + speeds until it runs out of memory (cache), then it drops and it could be anything between 200MB/sec - 260. That is normal operating speeds with about 40 people connected.

Statistics: Posted by Cuddles — 01 Sep 2013, 20:31

Re: My new toy

2013-07-18T15:48:43+02:00

What's the max supported RAM in that thing?
Also, what socket does it use and what CPU is in there right now?

Statistics: Posted by LegoGuy — 18 Jul 2013, 15:48

My new toy

2013-06-13T15:19:27+02:00

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Got two other servers also today, but they still in their boxes. This SAN better be amazing, been building my own SANS for a fraction of this things cost

If anyone is interested I'll take more closeup pic's of interesting things on this.

Statistics: Posted by Cuddles — 13 Jun 2013, 15:19