Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote:
I'm thinking of 8x1TB (or larger) SATA drives. I've found a case[2]
with hot-swap bays[3], that seems interesting. I haven't looked at
power supplies, but given that number of drives, I expect something
beefy with a decent reputation is called for.
For home use is the hot-swap option really needed?
Is anything needed?
The option is cheap and convenient. When it comes time to swap disks,
you don't have to take the case apart, etc. Yes, it saves downtime, but
it is also easier.
> Also, it seems like
people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up buying pricey
hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There seem to be no
decent add-on SATA cards that play nice with FreeBSD other than that
weird supermicro card that has to be physically hacked about to fit.
They use software RAID and hardware RAID at the same time? I'm not sure
what you mean by this. Compatibility with FreeBSD?
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