Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-27 Thread Dan Saul
I have 8 SATA on the motherboard, 4 PCI cards with 4 SATA each, one PCIe 4x sata card with two, and one PCIe 1x with two. The operating system itself will be on a hard drive attached to one ATA 100 connector. Kind of like a "poor man's" data centre, except not that cheap... It still is estimated

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Saul
I care more about data integrity then performance. Of course if performance is so bad that one would not be able to, say stream a video off of it that wouldn't be acceptable. On 6/22/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Saul wrote: > Good day ZFS-Discuss, > > I

[zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Saul
Good day ZFS-Discuss, I am planning to build an array of 30 drives in a RaidZ2 configuration with two hot spares. However I read on the internet that this was not ideal. So I ask those who are more experianced then me, what configuration would you recommend with ZFS, I would like to have some re