On 04/23/2014 06:34 PM, Vick Khera wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:12 PM, mayak <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree that the b110 is just worthless -- I tried setting it up for raid a >> mirror with two drives -- horrible. a second try with the BSD based raid >> worked great. So question is -- should I just throw 4 sata drives in the box >> and run a with a big mirror, or is there the added safety by running SSD. > I don't understand where you get the number for 4 drives in a mirror? > > If you're worried about disk failure, just put two disks in a software > mirror and be done with it. If you use different manufacturer batches, > they likely won't fail at the same time. > > My personal preference is to use a pair of pfSense boxes with CARP and > pfSync and a single SSD drive each. If the one fails, the other keeps > working while you fix it. hi vick,
i have mirrored disks like this before -- 4 copies of the same thing -- a bit dumb, but ... i think that your carp pair wins the prize -- i've a second dl160, so maybe that's the way to go ... lots of fans and power ... lol thanks to all m _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
