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    MS Cloud Storage takes a turn

    If you can't offer unlimited, don't say you are offering unlimited. Those people backing everything up to it weren't taking advantage of anything but the service they paid for. Also, don't say unlimited and give a caveat that it's not unlimited; that's bold face lying. Two options; give a...
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    Help me choose my 4TB daily drive

    I've been more than happy with my 10 5TB Toshiba MD04ACA500's (aka, PH3500U-1I72). Granted I've only had mine for ~5 months, they've been solid for 24/7 use so far.
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    ZFS drives, what's the current choice?

    Oh I pretty much know what I want, and that would be something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-2U-Server-X8DTN-2x-Xeon-L5640-2-26ghz-Hex-6x-8gb-HW-Raid-Rails-/231584847023?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35eb8854af I have a similar 4U box with dual L5640's and 96GB RAM as my...
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    ZFS drives, what's the current choice?

    Yeah, I love Splunk. I'll probably be building a 2U lower powered box to use as a second local copy of a subset of my data (user drives, photographs, music collections, etc)...stuff that can't be easily replaced. I just haven't found anything I like, yet.
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    ZFS drives, what's the current choice?

    I created a little Splunk app that parses smartctl output, and has a few visualizations so I can set up alerting on my drives. The drives shown are all in my ZFS box, with the Toshiba's are 5 2-way mirrors in my data zpool. If a drive goes above 48 degrees, I get an email. If there are any...
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    My First 4U 24Bay Chassis - Need some info...

    You're on 3.5? Did you mean 3.4? 3.4 is the latest stable release.
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    SSD Suggestions for KVM storage, and L2ARC and SLOG?

    Thanks for the clarification on the theoretical SLOG limits. I would also like to clarify that I am NOT storing VM's on this pool, so definitely no iSCSI usage, nor any NFS to Proxmox storage (well, at least for VM's -- I do have a dataset that's used for backups). Now something to note; I got...
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    SSD Suggestions for KVM storage, and L2ARC and SLOG?

    I'm not interested at all in using Samsung SSD's, and I'm primiarly looking at the 200GB Intel S3710 for my SLOG. FYI, I just bought my VM SSD's, and decided to go with the Mushkin Striker 480GB drives (bought 2), which I will likely put in a hardware RAID 1 instead of a ZFS mirror (I...
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    What Raid cards are people using these days for home rigs...?

    I just recently moved from hardware RAID to ZFS for my primary system, mainly as a way to try it out for a year or two (or longer). I must say, ZFS (ZOL on Proxmox) has been pretty easy to set up, and seems pretty stable to me. Anyway, if you want a hardware RAID controller, I'd recommend...
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    SSD Suggestions for KVM storage, and L2ARC and SLOG?

    All read/write activity to the data pool (8 x 5TB mirrored) will be over NFS; none over SMB. I said this only because the Sequential and random spec numbers are higher on the 850 than the 200GB S3710. For example, the 200GB S3710 says sequential R/W at 550/300 Mb/s, while the 250GB 850 Evo...
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    SSD Suggestions for KVM storage, and L2ARC and SLOG?

    To clarify, the SLOG and L2ARC would only be for the 8 x 5TB 7200RPM pool, assuming you can set L2ARC and SLOG per pool. The 2 x 500GB SSD mirror pool would not have SLOG or L2ARC. I am willing to go for the 200GB Intel S3710 for the L2ARC, if that's enough space. The endurance is a lot...
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    SSD Suggestions for KVM storage, and L2ARC and SLOG?

    Long story short, I have this box: Chassis: Supermicro SC846E16-R1200B (Replaced PSU's with PWS-920P-SQ) Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTE-F CPU's: x2 Intel Xeon L5640 (Hexa-core, 2.26GHz, HT) RAM: 96GB DDR3 (12 x 8GB PC3-10600, Registered ECC) HBA: Adaptec 5805 (All drives in JBOD passthrough)...
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    BTRFS vs ZOL?

    For a server, I'd normally use CentOS. I've been working with CentOS since v5, and now I can say I've been working with CentOS 7 for over 9 months. I'm really liking v7, and the only reason I suggested Fedora was for the newer kernel (in reference to using btrfs). Someone mentioned that RHEL...
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    BTRFS vs ZOL?

    Unfortunately, CentOS 7.1 is based on kernel 3.10.x, so it doesn't appear to be a good candidate for btrfs. I can definitely give Fedora 22 a go, since it just dropped. I think F23 will have btrfs as the default filesystem, so it should definitely be available in F22, and F22 has kernel 4.0...
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    BTRFS vs ZOL?

    Hey guys. I'm doing a new build and trying to decide between using BTRFS or ZOL, since I'll be running CentOS 7. Yeah, I know BTRFS is still not production ready, but basic features I'm sure are working well enough and I'm looking to build a system that will last 4-5 years with minimal...
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