think twice before doing.

Why? I've had better luck with ZFS than I've had with VINUM and GEOM in the past, and I've put my ZFS "array" through alot of stress.

If his data (photo / video storage) is that important, then perhaps he wants to do soemthing else ... but for a cheap way to get tons of storage, ZFS can't be beat.

ZFS has got it's caveats and gotchas - you *must* tune your FreeBSD installation to get stability.

See here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide


I'm running a fileserver-in-a-closet (patent pending) on FreeBSD 7.0- amd64, with 10x250GB drives in a single RAIDZ2 for my home storage needs.

 I'm using old Maxtor SATA150 drives, which are "desktop" class.
Several of them have had to remap sectors while being a part of the array, and I've never had ZFS complain, nor had the drive be "dropped" by the OS.


I'd suggest that the OP and yourself do some in-depth reading about ZFS and how it works. The best documentation I've found as yet is here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf


Charles Richards
richar...@gmail.com
charlesrichards.net





On Jan 2, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

Hi freebsd-questions,

For personal use (photo/video storage), I'm looking into creating a huge
single ZFS (raidz) volume that will replace my current collection of
drives used as storage. I'm thinking 4*1TB drives in RAID5(z).




My question is regarding the flavour of drivers that one can choose
from: Desktop class drives, or the so called RAID/Enterprise class drives.

but cheap drives they are OK.
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