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
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 6
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 pool)
>Ok. That helps. I'm trying to wrap my brain around the best way to do this.
>I'm going to try to duplicate what you are doing and see how that works out.
>I'm going to create 3x 2-way mirrors. I guess I don't really *need* the
>raidz at this point. My biggest concern with raidz is getting locked
Ok. That helps. I'm trying to wrap my brain around the best way to do this.
I'm going to try to duplicate what you are doing and see how that works out.
I'm going to create 3x 2-way mirrors. I guess I don't really *need* the
raidz at this point. My biggest concern with raidz is getting locked into
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
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
I've
