'ssd' Tag

• New co-lo box

  October 19, 2010

  It has been about six years since I last upgraded my co-lo box that hosts a myriad of services and websites for opensource, business, friends, and personal hobbies. Now I have a new machine in place that should last at least another six years. A tremendous amount of thanks goes out to Andrew at NETPLEX [...]

  posted in nexenta, zfs by pds

• Supercharge your X4500 Thumper with SSDs

  May 13, 2009

  Hybrid storage pools are the new coolest thing in ZFS land and are being pushed commercially with the recent release of Sun’s 7000 series open storage. For various reasons, Sun has only added a supported SSD option to the X4540 Thor systems. This unfortunately doesn’t help those of us wanting to extend our X4500 Thumper [...]

  posted in nexenta, opensolaris, zfs by pds