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zmttoxics wrote:
If you want a U40, you might do better to look for a Sun Java Workstation 2100z. Very similar hardware with the 939 opterons and supports both SCSI and SATA drives, and its classic quiet purple hardware.

Hope that helps.

Thanks ! It was a temptation since there's a whole bunch of inexpensive 1100 and 2100z's in Beijing from when Sun did all their development up there. Good thing you got rid of all them nasty manufacturing jobs so you could do just the highly-paid knowledge work !

But it looks like the locals got their hands into the mix, every one of them must have been thrown down three flights of stairs. Forcefully.

Ultra 20 out of Japan might still be the best way to go ... (Assist could use a hardware upgrade. We're still sticking with win2k tho :) )
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zmttoxics wrote:
Things I hate? The 5400 rpm drive it came with is terrible, worst I have ever had in a mac. I get like 65MB/s in disk perf. It will be replaced, along with an upgrade to 16GB of ram.


I did the same, picked up a Samsung 830 256GB SSD and a Mac mini dual drive kit from iFixit. Put the 5400RPM drive is the the top bay and the SSD in the lower. Huge difference in performance.

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nekonoko wrote:
I did the same, picked up a Samsung 830 256GB SSD and a Mac mini dual drive kit from iFixit. Put the 5400RPM drive is the the top bay and the SSD in the lower. Huge difference in performance.

Interesting - are you using the drive fusion stuff, or just using them as two independent volumes?

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Interesting - are you using the drive fusion stuff, or just using them as two independent volumes?


I've thought about trying drive fusion, but at the moment they're independent. I have MacOS on the SSD and Windows 7 on the standard drive.

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are you using the drive fusion stuff, or just using them as two independent volumes?

zfs ?
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hamei wrote:
smj wrote:
are you using the drive fusion stuff, or just using them as two independent volumes?

zfs ?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5446?view ... cale=en_US

Nope. Though I would think something like Seagates Momentus XT setup would be a better performer (being hardware level based). But this setup definitely allows for much larger SSD space.

Hmmm... Now I want to order that second drive kit... haha

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hamei wrote:
zfs?
Unfortunately Apple pulled the plug on their brief flirtation with ZFS just before Snow Leopard (10.6) was released, IIRC. See these three articles for that story. I should point out that ZFS is apparently useable for "secondary storage," just not by default and not on your system volumes, etc.

Fusion Drive is something different; Apple's basically using software to weld separate SSD and spinning HDD into something better than Seagate's hybrid Momentus SSD+HDD devices . More details from AnandTech or PCMag . My skimming of the explanations make Apple's approach sound more like hierarchical storage management (HSM) applied to the two devices, versus pure caching where the capacity of the cache is "lost" to the end-user. IOW with 1TB of HDD and 128MB of SSD, Apple gives you more like 1.12TB useable storage whereas a hybrid self-contained device would give you 1TB.

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smj wrote:
hamei wrote:
zfs?
Unfortunately Apple pulled the plug on their brief flirtation with ZFS just before Snow Leopard (10.6) was released, IIRC. See these three articles for that story. I should point out that ZFS is apparently useable for "secondary storage," just not by default and not on your system volumes, etc.

Fusion Drive is something different; Apple's basically using software to weld separate SSD and spinning HDD into something better than Seagate's hybrid Momentus SSD+HDD devices . More details from AnandTech or PCMag . My skimming of the explanations make Apple's approach sound more like hierarchical storage management (HSM) applied to the two devices, versus pure caching where the capacity of the cache is "lost" to the end-user. IOW with 1TB of HDD and 128MB of SSD, Apple gives you more like 1.12TB useable storage whereas a hybrid self-contained device would give you 1TB.


Way back when I was working on number plate recognition stuff... I was mucking about with zfs, mirroring root zpools, etc.. and just one note of warning: The MacFUSE ZFS stuff is completely incompatible with OpenIndiana zfs on commodity external USB drives. I don't remember the specifics but it was one of those you wanted to kick something events, I've tried hard to forget. ( http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ )

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PymbleSoftware wrote:
one note of warning: The MacFUSE ZFS stuff is completely incompatible with OpenIndiana zfs on commodity external USB drives.
http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/wiki/USB

*begins to contemplate setting up zfs for my file storage needs...

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