[ale] SSD speeds

[Derek Atkins]

Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:

> I think all the major have a package for it but it's not an install option
> for any that I use.
> ZFS is pretty bada$$ as long are you have a boatload of RAM and lots of
> spindles. Putting it on a 1 or 2 drive system seems rather pointless.  But
> I'm still expecting to have it mainstream Linux in a year or so. The
> de-dupe would be useful for my work but it would require 512GB RAM for the
> storage size.

Regular ZFS requires about 1GB RAM per TB of data.
Adding in DeDup ups the requirement to about 5GB/TB.  :-/

Do you really need DeDup?  Personally I feel I can live without it.

-derek
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