On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39:56AM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote: > From the marketing snippet posted on a local webshop, I see that WD > (or the shop?) recommends these drives in home/soho NASes of up to > 5 bays, and they recommend enterprise drives beyond that. I have no
That's the official WD party line, my guess based on the assumption that if you're buying more than 5 disks you probably have lots of money ;). I'd think the decision would be based on performance requirements, though, not number of drives. > On another hand, especially given the expected lower performance of > these disks and overall large volume, I'd go with raidz3 to be on > the safer side. But my wife turned down such a budget a few times ;) Ouch. The amount of "wasted" storage for raidz2 already hurts bad enough :). _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
