Help ZFS FreeBSD 8.0 RC2 Write performance issue

[James R. Van Artsdalen]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> So in short, you are saying the to get "normal" performance out of
> ZFS+NFS, the best way is to invest in an Areca and 2 SSDs :))

The Areca seems very sensitive to the disk drives used and I had to
abandon it.  It takes a day or so to get the card's firmware to sound
the on-board siren no matter which disk drives I tried.

And in any case a couple of Silicon Image 3124 host adapters with
external port multipliers is much faster: the CAM/SIIS driver with such
a setup easily sustains > 800 MB/s and would do better but for bus
bandwidth issues I didn't bother addressing.