On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at>wrote:
> I have to set up a server w/ 8x 1TB in about 2 weeks and consider ZFS as > well, at least for data. So root-fs would go onto 2x 1TB hdds with > conventional partitioning and something like ext4. > > 6x 1TB would be available for data ... on one hand for a file-server > part ... on the other hand for VMs based on KVM. > 1TB drives are right on the border of switching from RAIDZ to RAIDZ2. You'll see people argue for both sides at this size, but the 'saner default' would be to use RAIDZ2. You're going to lose storage space, but gain an extra parity drive (think RAID6). Consumer grade hard drives are /going/ to fail during a resilver (Murphy's Law) and that extra parity drive is going to save your bacon. I create -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd Web: douglasjhunley.com G+: http://goo.gl/sajR3
