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Home ZFS NAS Project
Background
Hard Drive Choice
Raid Levels
Questions
are iSCSI targets connected on bootup (Windows)
are iSCSI targets connected on bootup (Ubuntu): yes, is seems initiator is able to reconnect even after a target restart
can you grow iSCSI targets as normal files
can you grow iSCSI targets as ZFS volumes
Is there a write gain for 4 drive raid 5: yes
What is the performance hit for parity calculations: very small, active cpu usage is less than 2%, local throughput at 4 drives is 200MB/s, iSCSI access is at 125MB/s or 1000mb/s
what is the added latency of ethernet/tcp transmissions: 0.1ms - 0.2ms