Well I would like to thank everyone for there comments and ideas. I finally have this machine up and running with Nexenta Community edition and am really liking the GUI for administering it. It suits my needs perfectly and is running very well. I ended up going with 2 X 7 RaidZ2 vdevs in one pool for a total capacity of 10 TB.
One thing i have noticed that seems a littler different from my previous hardware raid controller (Areca) is the data is not constantly being written to the spindles. For example i am copying some large files to the array right now (approx 4 gigs a file) and my network performance is showing a transfer rate on average of 75MB/s. When i physically watch the server i only see a 1-2 second flury of activity on the drives then about 10 seconds of no activity. Is this the nature of ZFS? Thanks for all the help! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
