> Thanks a lot to all who responded to my post. > > 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".
I tend to stay away from raid cards. With ZFS pools all you need is ZFS and any OS [easily move drives around servers], vs. raid cards have to be the same if moving/replacing/card fails. With 'ZFS: do not give it all your HDD' [ http://www.freebsddiary.org/zfs-with-gpart.php ] You don't even need to have drives that are exactly the same. Completely not tied to any hardware.... > > So my conclusion is so far: I'm going to go for the 64bit version of > FreeBSD > and use ZFS (mainly due to error correction), but perhaps UFS for the OS. > I > will use a Raid controller (probably the RocketRaid 2640x1 which I have > here, but may also consider getting a new 3ware card with battery backup), > get the largest Raid Edition drives (need to order them) and use a > separate > Raid 1 for the OS (or worst case simply a SATA connector on the > motherboard > and backup this often) and a Raid 5 for the file storage area. > > Again - thanks a lot for all your help! Very appreciated! > > Best regards, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- ]Peter[ _______________________________________________ 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"
