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    ZFS Nas for VMWare

    I finally got this put together with specs pretty much as described in this thread 10x WD RE4 1TB drives 2x M1015 in IT mode 2x Intel 120GB for L2ARC 1x 20GB Intel SLC for ZIL Dedup is set to 1.0 which I assume means it's off. pool: datastore01 state: ONLINE scan: none requested config...
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    2.5" SSD in Norco 4224 hotswap bay

    Anyone have any tips for getting a 2.5" SSD to work in the Norco bays? I got a pair of Intel 520's which slid in after a little work (using hte screws included with the drives) but I can't for the life of me get an Intel 313 SSD to slide in. anyone else have this problem? What size screw...
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    WD Black vs RE4 Drives - 1TB

    Great article! Thanks!
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    WD Black vs RE4 Drives - 1TB

    Well they have a higher rated mean time between failure, so they should be more reliable. I don't know *what* exactly they do to improve the MTBF, but it's one of the more useful specs wrt reliability. 5 year warranty certainly doesn't hurt though
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    WD Black vs RE4 Drives - 1TB

    Building a OI+Nappit ZFS system, and trying to decide on 1TB drives. Controller is M1015. I'm looking at 10x 1TB drives for Raid10. The WD Black WD1002FAEX is ~$136 The WD RE4 WD1003FBYX is $145 I've read that for ZFS, you should actually disable TLER so I won't see benefit there, but...
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    Virtualized storage server or bare metal? Pros/Cons?

    Tell that to Red Hat, who has built a $1B company on this 'toy OS'
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    Virtualized storage server or bare metal? Pros/Cons?

    I was just looking at my current home ESXi box, all desktop class hardware (Asus mobo w/ Q6600) Uptime is currently 275 days.
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    FreeNAS build (ZFS)

    Look at the intel 311/313 20GB SLC for ZIL. They built it for SRT but it's a pretty good choice for ZIL for ~$120. I would personally avoid the OCZ drives for L2ARC. They have pretty high failure rates (relative to a company like Intel) and don't do as well when they're close to full due to...
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    WHS 2011 - Possible to restore a client onto a RAID volume???

    What is the BSOD error? What controller is doing the RAID? Can you boot into safe mode? I'd guess it's lack of the driver for the RAID controller
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    Most Reliable 1TB HDD (For Recording)?

    Another important consideration is ease of warranty exchange. It doesn't get much easier than WD IMO, where you put in a serial number on the website and ship them a drive. Other companies I've dealt with require you to jump through hoops like putting in failure codes from their awful 'drive...
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    ZFS Nas for VMWare

    Should I put the ZIL and L2ARC drives on the motherboard SATA controller or on the M1015? I was planning on putting all the data drives on the M1015 and the other 3-5 drives on the onboard controller. Also, I saw the 500gb RE4 drives at amazon for like $110. Is the enterprise-class...
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    Virtualized storage server or bare metal? Pros/Cons?

    is a KVM like an LPAR? I'm not familiar with much *nix administration out of webservers and personal stuff
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    Virtualized storage server or bare metal? Pros/Cons?

    yeah I agree with this. You have to assume your SAN is always going to be there. The way to protect against failure is to have a replicated DR SAN. The All in one is awesome for a single server for home use, but shared storage and clustered hosts is definitely better for real use cases.
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    Virtualized storage server or bare metal? Pros/Cons?

    A few thoughts, not responding to anyone in particular 1) Virtualization has *very* little overhead nowadays, and a virtualized OS can get close to 99% of the performance of bare metal on it. 2) ESX is considered rock solid in terms of stablity. In addition it supports a number of HA...
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    ZFS Nas for VMWare

    I've decided to go with the Norco 4224 for this. I'm getting 2x M1015, so I have 16 bays to work with. Would I be better off getting 16 500GB drives instead of 10-12 1TB drives? I was looking at the WD Black 500GB (WD5002AALX) for ~$100-110, compared to the 1TB Black that is more like...
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