Hi all, My disk resources are all getting full again, so it must be time to buy more storage :-) I'm using ZFS at home, and it's worked great on the concat of a 74Gb IDE and a 74 Gb SATA drive, especially with redundant meta-data. That's puny compared to some of the external storage bricks I see out there. But it would be nice to get some actual redundancy, wouldn't it?
What I've been looking for, and might have found now, is a cheap way to house 3-4 spindles in a single case connected by Firewire to my choice of three different machines. I don't really want to buy eSATA cards for them all (and one's a laptop anyway), and I'd put ordinary retail IDE or SATA drives in it. With 250Gb drives selling for $70 on newegg.com, all I have to do is to keep the price of the enclosure under control and I can almost match the cost of a single-spindle 750Gb external drive and get a Raid-Z out of the deal (say a total of < $500). The Firewire 400 case I'm looking at (for < $150) is here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=120030189937 They have an Ebay storefront here: http://stores.ebay.com/Superldg-Store They would also sell me Firewire 800 (which none of my current machines happen to support), SATA instead of IDE, and sets with different numbers of exposed Firewire connectors if your heart desires them. I don't know that I care about the difference between an IDE and a SATA drive at this price point. I know nobody can speak to the case I'm talking about, but does anyone have experience with ZFS on Firewire-attached drives? And does anyone have an alternate low-end JBOD solution that's about in this ballpark? I'm surprised to not see more of them offered for sale, without all the RAID cruft that of course I don't want anyway. Thanks, Rob T _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
