On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Frank Cusack <fcus...@fcusack.com> wrote:

> On January 23, 2010 8:04:50 AM -0800 "R.G. Keen" <k...@geofex.com> wrote:
>
>> The answer I came to, perhaps through lack of information and experience,
>> is that there isn't a best 1.5tb drive. I decided that 1.5tb is too big,
>> and that it's better to use more and smaller devices so I could get to
>> raidz3.
>>
>
> Please explain.  I don't understand how smaller devices gets you to
> raidz3.  With smaller devices, you probably have less need for raidz3
> as you have more redundancy?  It's the larger drives that forces you
> to add more parity.
>
> -frank



Smaller devices get you to raid-z3 because they cost less money.  Therefore,
you can afford to buy more of them.

-- 
--Tim
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