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yejun: >I received mine today. With stock CPU and memory, zfs is really slow. ZFS >30MBps write, UFS 70MBps write. Both results are under FreeNas with single >driver. If you write to a single zfs drive it's maybe the overhead of Data+ZIL+L2ARC which overlads a single spindle. I run...

nadtz, the currently last entry in that link from Chris Dando shows how he fixed the blinking power led "problem": Chris Dando said at 8:51 pm on Sep 17, 2009 Just a final comment or two. First off thanks Michael and Frank for all your help. I ended up making an RS232 cable, went into...

I'm running the box also with EON (snv129) but the led's on my box look normal (drive and network led is flashing during activity). You may check this story @ http://ss4200.pbworks.com/Boot%2BIssues%2B-%2BPower%2Blight%2Bflashes%2Bcontinuously

Roamer, I tried both, NexentaStor and NexentaCore and liked them. NexentaStor is good to manage for a non L*x system and free up to 1 TB storage. It has a good webinterface and cli. The free size limit was the reason why I didnt use it further because its too expensive for my usage. If it...

Hi Bert, I've installed OpenSolaris on another PC using the distr. CD onto a USB Memorystick (OCZ Rally2 in Harddisk mode - with BootIt RMB bit set). I've never managed to make the IDE port running with OpenSolaris on the DOM. Before I've moved the stick I modified some bootfiles like...

Master One, ZFS encryption is planned to come with the snv_111 release (we are currently @ snv_107, OS 2008.11 was snv_101). So keep a eye on it :-)

Dlong, had a strange experience too when I rebooted the box during a raid resync which was caused by a movement of a installed drive. I've also rebooted the box during that operation and the resync was not restarted/continued after boot. This didnt improve my confidence into this raid...

Ended @ZFS also :-) Simon, I'm running the box also with ZFS but did install OpenSolaris instead of *BSD/*X and its native CIFS service which puts any Raid and SAMBA config procedure and scripts to a shame. One of the first things I did was upgrading the 512MB Memory with a 2GB DIMM...

SS4200e and ZFS Just run iozone on my SS4200e loaded with OpenSolaris 2008.11, 2GB Memory, 4 Samsung 1TB F1 drives as a raidz volume. The iozone parameters where the same (from Tim) as a few posts before. I had already about 600GB data in that raidz pool and hope this doesnt change the...

Max mem/cache support Just had a look at the linux startup of the ss42k with the current version of the firmware (1.1.11.32736) and saw this :-) Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. 896MB LOWMEM available. As I wrote before I had installed a 2GB DIMM in the box and...

I've bought also one of this boxes together with 4*1TB Samsung F1 drives. Connected to a Netgear 8P Gigabit switch and a AMD 4600 X2 Box XP-SP3 with a Broadcom GB Ethernet. Use them as a RAID5 set and was suprised by the fact that during the first reconstruction the box was fully usable and...