[BBLISA] Fileserver opinion

[Toby Burress]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:21:28AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> > Behalf Of John Orthoefer
> > 
> > the 1TB SATA hard drive that you get from
> > NewEgg and xTB of disk storage you get from Netapp are NOT comparable.
> 
> I'll agree that "you get what you pay for."
> 
> But I'll say this:  Scrap netapp, and go with ZFS.  I did this about a year
> ago, and I am SOOOO happy I did.  ZFS does everything and more than netapp.
> I can run it on commodity Dell (or whatever blackbox) hardware.  I can build
> a cheap "backup" server which is regularly instantly(ish) snapshotted from
> the primary server, and all of it is migrated and stored offsite.
> 
> Seriously, the features and performance of ZFS over Netapp or EXT3/4 are
> hands-down just plain superior and awesome.

scrub: resilver in progress for 43h49m, 63.84% done, 24h49m to go

YMMV