Thanks a lot to all who responded to my post. I have learned lots here. Too bad I have to find another use for my 4 x 2TB green WDC drives I have laying around. Anyways - they'll probably end up as a temp/work drive on a few Windows stations.
Btw. will these drive work better in a ZFS "pool/tank" (not connected to a raid card)? I have noticed on my FreeNAS server that you can group several drives together into "one" large ZFS "drive". So my conclusion is so far: I'm going to go for the 64bit version of FreeBSD and use ZFS (mainly due to error correction), but perhaps UFS for the OS. I will use a Raid controller (probably the RocketRaid 2640x1 which I have here, but may also consider getting a new 3ware card with battery backup), get the largest Raid Edition drives (need to order them) and use a separate Raid 1 for the OS (or worst case simply a SATA connector on the motherboard and backup this often) and a Raid 5 for the file storage area. Again - thanks a lot for all your help! Very appreciated! Best regards, Andy _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
