Am .. first of all its depends on how many hard disks you have and also on how much is the importance and the necessity of these data . for my system I used 2 hard disk ( 160 GB each ) , first one has three pools one for the system it self and one for my documents, books and all my work files . and the last one is for my songs and movies, if you see even if one these pools get corrupted or even the system is crashed in way or another I can retrieve the rest unless you have a mirror disk which is different case , you can get your stuff back .. the next hard disk contain only two main pools which is only for my virtual machines images files , I kept all the machines which I used frequently in the first pool for speed access , and even more for the first one I always keep the media pool ( songs and movies ) off line and when I need it I attach it .. I also found this which is talk about pool performance considerations http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Storage_Pool_Performance_Considerations ....
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