Hi David, >Did you pick the chassis and disk size based on planned storage >requirements, or because it's what you could get to build a big honking >fileserver box? Just curious.
I have a 4tb Buffalo Terastation that cannot be expanded further and I am using 2.7tb. Also, I have need to make sure e-mail, websites, etc are routinely backed up. I chose 1.5tb drives as they were the best bang for the buck as I got them all on sale. 4 for $105 each and 4 of them for a whopping $50 each. All Seagate 7200RPM. I chose the Chenbro 16-bay chasis as it allowed me to expand to a reasonable RAID past the Terastation and also allowed me to to add more drives in the future. >For a system where you care about capacity and safety, but not that much >about IO throughput (that's my interpretation of what you said you would >use it for), with 16 bays, I believe the expert opinion will tell you >that two RAIDZ2 groups of 8 disks each is one of the better ways to >go. Yup that is what I am doing. I have two 3ware RAID card (each 8 SATA ports) and I have the 8 1.5tb drives to start with. I downloaded OpenSolaris today, I will get it installed tomorrow and see how I fair. Thanks for the link the ZFS Best Practices. Do you have any thoughts on implementation? I think I would just like to put my Home directory on the ZFS pool and just SCP files up as needed. I dont think I need to mount drives on my mac, etc. SCP seems to suite me. Best, -Jason _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
