I'm playing around with ZFS and want to figure out the best use of my 6x
300GB SATA drives. The purpose of the drives is to store all of my data at
home (video, photos, music, etc). I'm debating between:
6x 300GB disks in a single raidz2 pool
--or--
2x (3x 300GB disks in a pool) mirrored
Joe S wrote:
I'm playing around with ZFS and want to figure out the best use of my
6x 300GB SATA drives. The purpose of the drives is to store all of my
data at home (video, photos, music, etc). I'm debating between:
6x 300GB disks in a single raidz2 pool
--or--
2x (3x 300GB disks in a
Joe S wrote:
I'm playing around with ZFS and want to figure out the best use of my 6x
300GB SATA drives. The purpose of the drives is to store all of my data
at home (video, photos, music, etc). I'm debating between:
6x 300GB disks in a single raidz2 pool
--or--
2x (3x 300GB disks in a
Ah, so you are the Richard behind those articles I've been mulling over! :-)
You blog posts helped me to realize there was much more forethought required
when setting up my ZFS pool(s).
I'm glad I'm not the only person with this question.
Whatever I decide, I will include in this thread.
On
I'm going to try 5 disks in raidz2 with 1 hot spare.
I read about this here:
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/02/09/using-raidz2-and-hot-spares-on-older-sun-storage-arrays/
I don't have older disks, but they are consumer grade disks, and I've been
bitten by disks going dead before, thus
