Hi! I have a question regarding how to parttion my harddrives right, to avoid the need of a new installation soon again. I have 3 * 1Tb Samsung-drives attached to a motherboard with only 3 S-ata connections, and wanna use the space as much as possible. My thoughts is to use this computer as a fileserver and want to use it for storing photos, movies and so on. Thats why I want to use multiple disks, to get the possibility to for example have 1 disk crashing, and the others to still store data until I replace the damaged one....some kind of RAID, but I'm unsure if thats what it's called when it comes to ZFS-filesystem...?
So my question is, how do I set up my installation? Should i make 1 separate partition on one of the three Samsungdrives, to use for the Operatingsystem itself and the rest for storage, or how does this work, how should I partition when installing? I even had one thought about installing the operatingsystem to a separate USB-stick and boot it from there (because the lack of more S-ata contacts), but feels like I probably lose some speed from there......right? Thanks in advance /Art -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
