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ownagefool, (I'm not going to quote for brevity's sake)

(When I write "ZFS" below, I mean "any RAID solution." I'm not picking on ZFS.)

My comments weren't geared toward someone with your...

I see that you have some pretty strong feelings about this. My point was I would't use RAID in the first place (and I've read reports of people's ZFS setups failing too).

I shy away from RAID,...

That's just it -- different situations call for different tools. I read about people using ZFS for home media servers and the only ting I can think of is "overkill." Personally, I don't care if one...

Michael, thanks for the reply.

I checked out OpenBenchmarking.org a couple of times before I posted my original comment. It has a bunch of data on the site but I have a hard time condensing it...

I'd like to see a "Recommended Hardware" Leader Board where users could vote for the hardware that performs best and is most compatible with Linux.

My ATI X1650 Pro died last night and I'm looking for a PCI-e card in the sub $100 or so range that has excellent 2d performance under Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS.

Really, just a chipset recommendation...