XigmaNAS

Sorry yes, I know it's one of those silly questions that doesn't have an answer per se. But looking for a ballpark estimate of do/don't do.

Currently have an HP N36L, the CPU inside is an AMD Neo II 1.3Ghz...

Anyways, the the N56L has just been released which is exactly the same as the N36L microserver except it has the CPU clocked at 2.2Ghz...

I'm happy with transfer rates of 70MB/s+ for read/writes. Baring this in mind is it worth the switch to ZFS? Obviously I assume I will have to use ECC RAM...and is 8GB enough to sustain these expectations without weird pauses.

Last time I tried ZFS which was a year or so ago, I remember it working but there were weird pauses for 20-30 seconds for no explainable reason and it felt rather clunky (on the old 1.3Ghz CPU)

(This is for a 5 x 4TB array) in equivalent of RAID5

Cheers,

I could not imagine that the hold ups were caused by the the CPU, my "little" E350 is good enough to sustain ~90mb/s transfers from 4 HDDs being only at about 70% load. I would look into something else like the NIC configuration or the ZFS kernel tune... 8GB is plenty! I ran the ZFS with 2GB of ram still getting ~50mb/s.