John Smith wrote: > Hello all, > > Spent the last several hours perusing the ZFS forums and some of the blog > entries regarding ZFS. I have a couple of questions and am open to any hints, > tips, or things to watch out for on implementation of my home file server. > I'm building a file server consisting of an Asus P5WD2 motherboard (which > utilizes the ICH7 south bridge, allowing RAID 5 through the embedded Intel > controller), an 80GB PATA system drive and four 500GB SATA drives. This will > be serving media and personal data through Samba services to a couple of > desktops and a streaming media appliance. The server will also have a dual > core 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 and 2GB of system RAM. The home network is all gigabit > ethernet. With redundancy and data protection being the primary goal, and > performance the secondary, what combination of RAID 5, ZFS, and RAIDZ do you > folks recommend? Some, all...maybe none? ;-) Anyone else doing something > similar? What's your experience? Thank you for your time. > > What capacity are you after? Is this a 64 ore 32 bit system?
I was going to build a system with 4 500GB drives as 2x2 way mirrors giving 1TB of storage (I ended up using 4x2 way mirrors of 320GB drives, mainly for cost/performance reasons). Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
