hardware for home use large storage

[Emil Mikulic]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:31:55AM -0500, Peter C. Lai wrote:
> Also does anybody know if benching dd if=/dev/zero onto a zfs volume that
> has compression turned on might affect what dd (which is getting what it
> knows from vfs/vmm) might report?

Absolutely!

Compression on:
4294967296 bytes transferred in 16.251397 secs (264282961 bytes/sec)
4294967296 bytes transferred in 16.578707 secs (259065276 bytes/sec)
4294967296 bytes transferred in 16.178586 secs (265472353 bytes/sec)
4294967296 bytes transferred in 16.069003 secs (267282747 bytes/sec)

Compression off:
4294967296 bytes transferred in 58.248351 secs (73735432 bytes/sec)