On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Andy Wodfer <wod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have learned lots here. Too bad I have to find another use for my 4 x 2TB > green WDC drives I have laying around. Anyways - they'll probably end up as > a temp/work drive on a few Windows stations. > > Btw. will these drive work better in a ZFS "pool/tank" (not connected to a > raid card)? I have noticed on my FreeNAS server that you can group several > drives together into "one" large ZFS "drive". > They should be fine in ZFS, I think there is also a utility to set the amount of time before it parks the heads, if you raise the time you should less of the load/unload cycles. Not sure if it's mentioned, but those drives are susceptible to misalignment, however that shouldn't be an issue if you use the whole drive. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
