redux: 48 or 96 sata3 paths ... specific ZFS hardware proposal

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2011-Sep-22 10:45:29 -0700, Jason Usher <jusher71 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>About the only possible downside I can see to this board is that it
>only takes 192GB of ram, but that is a LOT of ram ...

Not for a 60TB ZFS system with lots (metadata in particular) activity.
Even if you don't think you need 192GB, I suggest you populate the
board with the largest DIMMs you can afford and leave a bank of slots
free so you can fit more RAM in the future.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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