On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > Always assuming 2 spare disks, and Using the sata disks, I would configure > them in raid1 mirror (raid6 for the 400G), Besides being cheaper, I would > get more useable space (4TB vs 2.4TB), Better performance of raid1 (right?), > and better data reliability ?? (don't really know about that one) ? > > Is this a recommended setup ? It looks too good to be true ?
Using mirrors will surely make up quite a lot for disks with slow seek times. Reliability is acceptable for most purposes. Resilver should be pretty fast. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
