On 12/10/2010 7:07 PM, Brian wrote:
I had not really considered that. I was going under the assumption that 2TB drives are
still "too big" for a single vdev in terms of resilver times if there is a
failure. I also have a 20 bay case, so I have plenty of room to expand. So I wold keep
my 1TB
I had not really considered that. I was going under the assumption that 2TB
drives are still "too big" for a single vdev in terms of resilver times if
there is a failure. I also have a 20 bay case, so I have plenty of room to
expand. So I wold keep my 1TB drives around anyhow.
Thanks for the
Thanks. I hadn't come across the Hitachi's They certainly seem to have a
price premium associated with them - but I suppose that is to be expected. I
was sort of looking towards 'greener' drives since performance wasn't a large
factor for either of these vdevs.
Seems too bad all the others
- Original Message -
> The time has come to expand my OpenSolaris NAS.
>
> Right now I have 6 1TB Samsung Spinpoints in a Raidz2 configuration. I
> also have a mirrored root pool.
>
> The Raidz2 configuration should be for my most critical data - but
> right now it is holding everything s
> can I use any 2TB drive? Even the WD that lie about their sector size?
> Speed is not really of any importance here.
Yes, you can. The WD will lie and say it's 512-byte sectors, and
you'll get misaligned reads/writes and performance will suffer but it
will work.
> I also need another vdev to
The time has come to expand my OpenSolaris NAS.
Right now I have 6 1TB Samsung Spinpoints in a Raidz2 configuration. I also
have a mirrored root pool.
The Raidz2 configuration should be for my most critical data - but right now it
is holding everything so I need to add some more pools and mo
