I'm planning on building an expandable storage server at home, with a capacity of 30 HDDs. Basically a simple server with lots of room, that allows me to easily and cost-efficiently add more storage on demand (four drives per batch, raidz), while keeping the data at pristine state by scrubbing and monitoring the ZFS pools. Although one USB-port alone is quite slow, I'm hoping that four drives together will give decent speeds.
[b]Why I think it should work[/b] a. This blog: http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/opensolaris_home_server_zfs_and b. Hardware & drivers. It's a pain trying to find cheap controllers with solaris support and enough sata ports. c. The bandwidth per PCI lane is 133MB/s - which, at five drives per controller, yields 26MB/s per drive - USB is maxed at 20MB/s. d. Simple and cheap conversion: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8110 There is currently one question in my mind: - Is it possible to move the drives - and their pools - from USB over to SATA (and possibly back again) ? As a sidenote, I've only used opensolaris for a couple of weeks on a vmware machine. I'll move over to a physical machine once I get the last pieces of hardware I need. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
