[SATLUG] IO-InfoOnly: 1 Terabyte Hitachi Hard Disk $399, ZFS versus VxFS with IOzone, ZFS v VxFS - Ease

[Robert Pearson]

1) "1 Terabyte Harddisk - $399"
<<http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/2504-1-Terabyte-Harddisk.html>>
"Wow! Enterprise version in the second quarter. The 48 Terabyte Thumper is near"

[Source article references---]
"Hitachi claims world's first terabyte drive"
<<http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36725>>

"By INQUIRER staff: Friday 05 January 2007, 08:09
THE STORAGE division of Hitachi said it is introducing the world's
first one terabyte (TB) hard drive.
The Deskstar 7K1000 will ship this quarter at a price of $399, or as
Hitachi puts it, at 40 cents a gigabyte.
The firm is also releasing a Cinemastar 1TB drive aimed at the digital
video recording market. The Deskstar 1TB drive comes with S-ATA 3Gb/s
and P-ATA 133 interfaces. Hitachi said it will introduce an enterprise
version of the 1TB drive in the second quarter of this year. µ"


2) "ZFS versus VxFS with IOzone"
<<http://blogs.sun.com/dom/entry/zfs_v_vxfs_iozone>>

"IOzone is a I/O benchmarking utility that I have blogged about
before. I also covered off the results of running Filebench on the two
filesystems. Here, for the sake of completeness, are the results of
some IOzone runs I did at the same time. The command line for IOzone
used the following arguments and options:
iozone -R -a -z -b file.wks -g 4G -f testile"

[previous article used Filebench]
<<http://blogs.sun.com/dom/entry/filebench%3A_a_zfs_v_vxfs>>

3) "ZFS v VxFS - Ease"
<<http://blogs.sun.com/dom/entry/zfs_v_vxfs_ease>>

"I've had people asking me to blog more of my stuff on ZFS, especially
in relation to the Veritas suite (Microsoft NTFS and Linux
aficionados, make yourselves known to my highly efficient Customer
Services team using the comments form below).
I did a lot of poking into ZFS performance over the summer. The
Veritas Filebench results are already posted here but apart from the
numbers, what leapt out straight away was the simplicity of use of ZFS
compared to the competition.
I'm not talking about GUIs because I grew up in environments (banks,
IT vendors) where they simply weren't used either because the required
precision in the configuration demanded command line and scripting or
the work was remote (for which read "from home in middle of night")
and the comms just didn't move the bits fast enough to support GUIs.
For a start the conceptual framework is a lot simpler."