Following on from my previous post regarding AFP and iSCSI benchmarks i’ve decided (after many requests) to post a few raw benchmarks of the system gathered by bonnie++, the environment is as follows: CPU: Athlon 64 3700+ RAM: 2gb DDR400 Controllers: 2x SATA-II and 1x SATA-I Hard Drives: 7x Samsung 2tb Spinpoint F3 5600 RPM [...]

UPDATED WITH BOTH iSCSI & AFP RESULTS I’ve recently setup a ZFS raidz with 7 disks using NexentaStor, natively this doesn’t come with AFP, but I managed to get a package and get this all working (which i’ll demo in an upcoming tutorial), one thing i noticed however is that I could never find any [...]

Well, i’ve used FreeNAS for around 2 years+ now, and all has been good, however, in that time demand for large quantities of storage has now been joined by demand for high speed storage; Once I had replaced all of my drives with 2tb 7200rpm drives I realised that FreeNAS wasn’t giving me the performance [...]

Recently i had a thought… Most of my machines are sitting redundant and have upto 4 drives in each… without unscrewing every single one of out of my rack… i want to utilise all of that space into one giant zpool using ZFS. Imagine combining the drive space resources of 10 computers into 1 giant [...]