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Subject: Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2),
 performance issues
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:57:36 -0800 Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote about Re: immense delayed write to file
system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues:

JC> If you want a consumer-edition drive that's better tuned for server
JC> work, you should really be looking at the WD Caviar Black series or
JC> their RE/RE2 series.  

That's exactly what I did. I have WD-RE2 drives here that show exactly
this problem (RE2/GP)! The model number is WD1000FYPS-01ZKB0.


cu
  Gerrit