[OpenIndiana-discuss] What happens when a ZIL drive dies?

[Richard Elling]

On Jun 6, 2012, at 4:22 AM, Matt Clark wrote:

> It's true you need a decent SSD, but they don't have to be expensive.  The Intel 320 series has power loss protection and good performance.  The 80GB (10,000 write IOPS,  10TB endurance) model is available for £100 un the UK.  Every ZFS server should have one!
> 
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-320-enterprise-server-storage-application-specification-addendum.html

NB, the 10k IOPS is for a write span limited to 8GB. For full-size random writes, the
IOPS dives to an astonishing 300. Still 2x a HDD, but only 2x a HDD. For slog use,
consider a partition size 8GB or less.
 -- richard

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