On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:47:26AM -0700, Ross wrote: > My recommendation: buy a small, cheap 2.5" SATA hard drive (or 1.8" SSD) and > use that as your boot volume, I'd even bolt it to the side of your case if > you have to. Then use the whole of your three large disks as a raid-z set.
Yup, I'm going with 4GB of mirrored flash for root/var/usr and I'll keep
the main spindles only for data.
> If I were in your shoes I would also have bought 4 drives for ZFS instead of
> 3, and gone for raid-z2.
No room - Antec NSK-2440 - and too much power draw. My server idles at
57-64 W (under Linux) and I'd like to keep it that way.
> And finally, I don't know how much room you have in your current case, but if
> you're ever looking for one that takes more drives I can highly recommend the
> Antec P182. I've got 6x 1TB drives in my home server and in that case it's
> so quiet I can't even hear it turn on. My watch ticking easily drowns out
> this server.
Heh - I do have the P180 as my workstation case. But I don't have
that much room for servers 8^)
> PS. If you're going to be using CIFS, avoid build 93.
Can you please give a link to the discussion, or a bug id?
Thanks,
florin
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