Recent content by JPorter

Yes, of course NIC bonding won't affect single-client traffic. I was wondering if there is a benchmarking tool available that actually initiates and measures multi-client traffic. I beg to differ on the pricing thing. $2800 is quite cheap compared to similarly-performing rack NAS systems...

I'm loving the results I've gotten thus far on my "SME" oriented ZFS NAS build. In short summary, I built a low-cost high performance NAS: new Sandy Bridge architecture Xeon E3 1240 large-capacity "Nearline" 7200rpm SAS-2 drives high speed LSI HBA with SAS 6G (no raid) OS is OpenIndiana...

The thing that blew my mind is that these guys are claiming to have lost arrays entirely without any hardware failure. That's precisely what ZFS is supposed to be deeply resistant to, with its integral checksumming. RAID-Z, even more so. Has anyone else ever heard of "mysterious" total data...

The reason that I ask is that several commenters on StorageMojo claim to have lost entire arrays in ZFS, unrecoverably, on more than one occasion. I'm trying to figure out whether they are real people or paid FUD shills. Comments 18, 19, 20 by "Dave" and "John" on this article...

I'm getting ready to build a SAS/6G box for expandable network storage for my company, and trying to decide between traditional hardware raid (Adaptec 6805) and advanced software raid using ZFS on a fast SAS 6g HBA. FreeBSD, OpenIndiana, and Nexentastor are all good options for ZFS... but...

This router works extremely well with the K26 build of TomatoUSB. Any chance of a review using that firmware? With OpenVPN baked in, it makes an excellent SMB router.