How powerful does a MacPro need to be for ZFS?

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How powerful does a MacPro need to be for ZFS?

Post by luc-j-bourhis » Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:31 am

First post of mine, complete newbie in ZFS. I have read that ZFS is quite demanding for the hardware, especially when it comes to RAM. But what about CPU? What's the oldest MacPro model on which ZFS would comfortably run? With how much RAM? I'm planning of setting up a RAIDZ on 4 disks if it matters.

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Re: How powerful does a MacPro need to be for ZFS?

Post by grahamperrin » Mon Apr 01, 2013 10:41 am

Welcome to the ZEVO community!

If performance is a consideration:


Under one of those topics, from Core Storage encrypted ZFS home in a MacBookPro5,2:

grahamperrin wrote:Whilst performance is reduced by the mixture with HFS Plus (keyword: latency), I am happy.


– so with hardware and a configuration that are more performance-oriented, I guess that you should be comfortable with 8 GB memory or more in any Mac Pro that meets the requirements for ZEVO.

Also we have a number of topics about memory. Two points for starters:


I can't predict what hardware will be required for OS X 10.9 but let's assume that the next OS will make better use of resources … so for what it's worth, aim for hardware that might run 10.9.

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I shouldn't take this off-topic but as you're a newcomer to ZFS, some of the following topic may be useful:


Last but not least: when you accept the licence agreement, you get the full installer (not the smaller update). Don't forget to update.
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