I am looking into getting something like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120069356632&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=002
For a home storage server. I would like to run ZFS. Preferrably FreeBSD (if basic functionality is completely bug-free and I won't lose any data :)) as I am more comfortable with it. However, I have been subscribed to the ZFS lists for some time now and done a Google check up for topics relating to this for some time, and the jury still seems to be out on whether or not this would be a good idea. I need it mainly for DVD storage (for easy playback) and personal archiving. So maybe 3-4 read streams and 1-2 write streams - probably at peak time. Is this a viable option? I want capacity more than speed; but I want at least single parity redundancy with RAID-Z. Would it be an option to add 8 drive units as needed, making them each a single RAID-Z device (so 7 drives usable?) and add them into the same zpool to increase available storage when I would get low? I might be missing some concepts here... but I keep querying this list hoping someone has done some of the footwork already (I don't have as many funds available to me as in the past to mess around with experimental/untested ideas) not to mention I don't want to be experimenting with my data... or maybe someone at least has some advice. I have seen a couple comments about Firewire, not many about USB. I don't care about the hotplugging, I can power down to replace any drives or do maintenance. It's mainly for cheap, quiet enclosures that can export JBOD... Thanks, mike _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
