On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM, krad wrote:
> A few people have mentioned labelling the drives. Its a good thing to do,
> but take it a step further. Before you put the drives in the system,
> physically label them with something identifiable (colored sticker, number
> whatever). Then when you cr
On 19 November 2010 10:25, Matthew Seaman
wrote:
> On 19/11/2010 10:00, krad wrote:
> > If you already have a 3ware card and you are familiar with them, why not
> let
> > it do the raid and just plonk zfs on top of the lun presented to the
> system?
> > Will make booting off pure zfs much easier.
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote:
>
>> 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'
>>
On 19/11/2010 10:00, krad wrote:
> If you already have a 3ware card and you are familiar with them, why not let
> it do the raid and just plonk zfs on top of the lun presented to the system?
> Will make booting off pure zfs much easier.
There's a lot of duplication of function there -- both ZFS an
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:44:12 +
Paul Wootton wrote:
> Here is a copy from smartctl
> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 092 092 000Old_age
> Always - 5958
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032 001 001 000Old_age
> Always - 885346
>
> The drive
On 19 November 2010 09:48, Andy Wodfer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote:
>
> > 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.
On 18 November 2010 13:51, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 7:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm going to build a server that's intended to store uncompressed
> videofiles
> > (where 1 hour film equals about 500GB). I plan on using Western Digital
> 2TB
> > or 3TB SATA harddrives. Total
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Peter wrote:
> 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://ww
> 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
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Andy Wodfer 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
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"
On 11/18/10 18:23, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
On 11/18/2010 7:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote:
Harddrive speed is not so important so a 5400rpm drive
would be OK. Seems like the green line of WD harddrives use both 5400rpm and
7200rpm. I will use RAID 5.
I wo
On Nov 18, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 7:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote:
>> Harddrive speed is not so important so a 5400rpm drive
>> would be OK. Seems like the green line of WD harddrives use both 5400rpm and
>> 7200rpm. I will use RAID 5.
>
> I would stay away from the green
On 2010/11/18 at 8:44, ryan.cole...@cwis.biz (Ryan Coleman) wrote:
FYI: I used Seagate hard drives (I hear they are
coming out with a 3TB internal drive any day now):
Yes, but a 5200-5400 RPM drive, I believe.
From the OP:
On 2010/11/18 at 3:16, wod...@gmail.com (Andy Wodfer) wrote:
Hard
On Nov 18, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Peter A. Giessel wrote:
> On 2010/11/18 at 3:16, wod...@gmail.com (Andy Wodfer) wrote:
>
>> Total storage in version 1 of this server will
>> probably be 8-12 TB.
> ...
>> The processor will be a 64bit capable Intel processor and I plan on using a
>> Highpoint Rocke
On 2010/11/18 at 3:16, wod...@gmail.com (Andy Wodfer) wrote:
Total storage in version 1 of this server will
probably be 8-12 TB.
...
The processor will be a 64bit capable Intel processor and I plan on using a
Highpoint Rocketraid or 3ware Raid controller.
...
1. Which FreeBSD version should
On Nov 18, 2010, at 6:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm going to build a server that's intended to store uncompressed videofiles
> (where 1 hour film equals about 500GB). I plan on using Western Digital 2TB
> or 3TB SATA harddrives. Total storage in version 1 of this server will
> probably be
On 11/18/2010 7:16 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm going to build a server that's intended to store uncompressed videofiles
> (where 1 hour film equals about 500GB). I plan on using Western Digital 2TB
> or 3TB SATA harddrives. Total storage in version 1 of this server will
> probably be 8-12 T
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:13 +
Bruce Cran wrote:
> There's a guide to installing FreeBSD on zfs at
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Note that even if you
> have a 'legacy' BIOS you can still use GPT - if you use the MBR scheme
> you'll be limited to a maximum partition of 2TB.
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Sorry missed the ZFS part.
>
>
>>>
>>> 2. I know that the 3ware Raid controller supports larger drives than 2TB
>> (or
>>> was it 1TB?). The Highpoint controller I'm not so sure of, but I've had
>> good
>>> experience with these on a few Windows s
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:42:14 +0100
Andy Wodfer wrote:
> Thanks! I didn't know I could use amd64 on Intel servers. Then my next
> questions will be: How about the ports collection - does the 64bit
> version have most of the ports? I need ffmpeg, php, apache, mysql,
> imagemagick, ghostscript, exif
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On 18/11/2010, at 23:12, Andy Wodfer wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>> 1. Which FreeBSD version should I install? (it must support large
>> drives).
>>> I'm currently using the standard FreeBSD 8.1 (STABLE) on several servers,
>>> but this is a 32bit version, r
[snip]
> > 1. Which FreeBSD version should I install? (it must support large
> drives).
> > I'm currently using the standard FreeBSD 8.1 (STABLE) on several servers,
> > but this is a 32bit version, right? I suppose I need a 64bit version when
> I
> > use large harddrives?
>
> Freebsd has been 64
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On 18/11/2010, at 22:46, Andy Wodfer wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm going to build a server that's intended to store uncompressed videofiles
> (where 1 hour film equals about 500GB). I plan on using Western Digital 2TB
> or 3TB SATA harddrives. Total storage in
Hi,
I'm going to build a server that's intended to store uncompressed videofiles
(where 1 hour film equals about 500GB). I plan on using Western Digital 2TB
or 3TB SATA harddrives. Total storage in version 1 of this server will
probably be 8-12 TB. Harddrive speed is not so important so a 5400rpm
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