Recent content by BonzTM

The Hitachi 5k3000's are 512 byte drives. I checked them out myself as I will be moving to ZFS in a day or two. I have 5 of the 5k3000's and can verify that they are not 4k drives. http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/02D9197756A273D0862577D50024EC1D/$file/DS5K3000_ds.pdf...

I'm usually against waiting, as it just becomes a vicious cycle; then you usually end up waiting forever and using your current hardware. In this case however, I would definitely wait a few more months to see what happens. SB-E is supposed to debut Q3 of this year. Intel usually debuts their...