[geeks] Impressive...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Mark Benson wrote:
> On 4 Mar 2009, at 21:48, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Nadine Miller <velociraptor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I can see why they make such good NAS arrays, it's just a pitty Intel
>>>> only put 1 RAM slot on them, I'd dearly love 4GB of RAM to cache for
>>>> ZFS. Maybe I could use a Flash setup and use Johnny Schwartz's great
>>>> ideal of having Flash as your cache using all ZFS's clever algorithms
>>>> to prevent it burning out :)
>>>>
>>>> See: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/managing_a_bestseller
>>>
>>> Maybe one of those 4 or 8GB SSD's someone's taken out of a netbook to
>>> upgrade?
>>
>> 32 Gig SATA SSDs are under $100, and sometimes 64 Gig drives are about
>> $100-125. Both are 2.5" notebook size.
> 
> I noticed if you do a Solaris 10 10.08 text console install (which I did
> to get the ZFS root) and use ZFS as the file system at one of the stages
> it gives you a choice of something like 'Standard' or 'Flash'? Anyone
> know what that's about?

I think that is for "flash archives".

--Patrick