From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 12:20:55 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E4E1065672 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:20:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-fs@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7FD8FC15 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qe4cX-0004sa-Qm for freebsd-fs@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:20:53 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:20:53 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:20:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:20:39 +0200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <1309793921.2618.YahooMailRC@web120016.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101102 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: <1309793921.2618.YahooMailRC@web120016.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Subject: Re: Are thumpers still interesting in 2011 ? (raidz3 on x4500 @ 3.0gbps ...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:20:55 -0000 On 04/07/2011 17:38, George Sanders wrote: > > > If I understand correctly, the interesting thing about a Sun x4500 (a "thumper") > is that every one of the 48 disks has a direct path to the system board, > allowing for full, independent throughput from every single drive. > > The downside, in 2011, is that it is a SATA2 system @ 3.0gbps. > > So, is this still an interesting system ? Is it still difficult to put together > a system with 48 independent paths to the board, like the Thumper ? It's a bit outdated, but here are the plans for a do-it-yourself slightly scaled down Thumper-like server: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/