> Consider that 18GByte disks are old and their failure > rate will > increase dramatically over the next few years.
I guess thats why i am asking about raidz and mirrors, not just creating a huge stripe them > Do something to > have redundancy. If raidz2 works for your workload, > I'd go with that. Well i thinks so, the file system is currently on a raidz with three disk with no complains [b]Food for thought[/b] How do you fit sata into a scsi array???? [b]More food for thought[/b] So how do these two 500gb HDD work then? Do i just leave them on the side and the magic of ISCSI allows then to work and shared between boxes? Sorry for the gitty response but i am in the uk (see my details) so this 160 pound idea of yours is not 160 pounds. It is cost of the hdd plus the new box that can take them, so its a nice cheap option then :) > BTW, I was just at Fry's, new 500 GByte Seagate > drives are $180. > Prices for new disks tend to approach $150 (USD) > after which they > are replaced by larger drives and the inventory is > price reduced > until gone. A 2-new disk mirror will be more reliable > than any > reasonable combination of 5-year old disks. Food for > thought. > -- richard > _____________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu > ss > This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
