On 12 July 2013 12:06, Colin Fee <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night after some updates on my media server, one of the disks in a > mirror set failed a SMART check and was kicked out (fortunately I have good > backups). It's failing on the bad sector count but I haven't done a deeper > analysis yet. > > However it's time to bite the bullet and do some upgrade work. I'm > intending to replace all of the disks with larger ones to increase the > storage size and when I do, use ZFS. > > The box is based around a Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3 mobo, with an AMD Phenom > II X6 1055T cpu and buckets of RAM and the OS on a 240Gb SSD. > > So I'm looking for a strategy re the implementation of ZFS. I can install > up to 4 SATA disks onto the mobo (5 in total with one slot used by the SSD) > > I should add to that I've begun reading through necessary literature and sites, and a colleague at work who uses ZFS extensively on his home Mac server stuff has given me some intro videos to watch.
I guess what I'm asking is for pointers to the gotchas that most people overlook or those gems that people have gleaned from experience. -- Colin Fee [email protected]
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