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Storage Spaces vs. ZFS

Prelude It’s time for the big showdown! In this post I continue with my benchmark frenzy and after messing around with ZFS I put those SSDs to the test with…

noobient 2015-10-27No Comments

First Look at ZFS & FreeNAS

ZFS Before finalizing our SSD storage I really wanted to give ZFS, and more specifically, FreeNAS a go. ZFS is particularly interesting because of its awesome performance with its parity…

noobient 2015-10-24No Comments

iSCSI SAN with multiple NICs

Preface When you’re dealing with SSD storage, chances are, a single network interface is just not enough. No, not even 10GBE is. In fact, with our current 24 SSD array…

noobient 2015-10-24No Comments

Storage Spaces Performance Woes

So after being quite happy with the SSD performance of Storage Spaces, it turned worse. I realized this by accident, but now it seems persistent. After reboots, SS performance randomly…

noobient 2015-10-21No Comments

Storage Spaces Performance Analysis – Part 3

After part 1 and part 2 of this series, it’s time to wrap things up - at least for now. Let’s see some SSD benchmarks! This time the test specs…

noobient 2015-10-091

Storage Spaces Performance Analysis – Part 2

In part 1 I went through the basics, now it’s time to get a bit more exotic. I promised to do some SSD testing, but first I had to check…

noobient 2015-09-26No Comments

Storage Spaces Performance Analysis – Part 1

Preamble We're building a new company from the ground up and I've decided to go the software way in regards of storage. We've used to be using LSI MegaRAID but…

noobient 2015-09-18No Comments