Solaris

Here are some benchmarks

System

4x 1TB Western Digital WD10EADS (raidz1 for the pool)
1x 160GB Samsung Spinpoint SP160 (for system)
4GB RAM DDR2 800
CPU Athlon X2 4200+
Mainboard Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 (AMD 690V based chipset)
OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_101b_rc2 X86

Real life benchmarking

Moving a 500 gigabyte large test-set within the same ZFS-Pool but between different file systems (so it degrades to normal copying) will reach about 82Mbytes per second.

Synthetic benchmarking

Some widely used ZFS commands, as described on Heise:

Creating, or work you just do once

Identifying your disks using format and exit with Strg+c

~$ sudo format
Password: 
Searching for disks...done
 
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
       0. c3d0 <DEFAULT cyl 19454 alt 2 hd 255 sec 63>
          /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0
       1. c4t0d0 <ATA-WDC WD10EADS-00L-1A01-931.51GB>
          /pci@0,0/pci1458,b005@12/disk@0,0
       2. c4t1d0 <ATA-WDC WD10EADS-00L-1A01-931.51GB>

For my Solaris NAS-Box I wanted a simple TrayIcon on which I can click to take a look at the status of my USV. But because the common GUIs like GAPCMON etc. won't compile on Solaris, I wrote a (very) simple java program which just parses the output of apcaccess (apcupsd) and displays the data in a grid. It's opensource and written in Java. Perhaps this is also useful for you.

usage example:

java -jar apcupsd_gui.jar -apcaccess /etc/opt/apcupsd/sbin/

A screenshot:

My assumption is a bare installed OpenSolaris 2008/11. The aim is to install the apcupsd daemon. First you need to install some development-stuff: gcc(SUNWgcc), gnu make (SUNWgmake) and SUNWsfwhea (lots of headers including needed usb.h) using the packagemanager. Then download the tar ball and go on:

tar zxvf apcupsd-3.14.4.tar.gz
cd apcupsd-3.14.4
sh configure --enable-usb
make
sudo make install
sudo reboot -- -r