The host for this is up in the air. I'd hope I could use a Shuttle XPC.
It's an 8 drive USB enclosure. The total bandwidth to all 8 drives would be 480Mbps, which is fine for me. I was hoping to do a RAID-Z or RAID-Z2. I would have it export the drives as JBOD. http://fwdepot.com/thestore/product_info.php/products_id/1623 If I get my math right and understand ZFS... If I have 8x750 gig disks using RAID-Z I will have 7x750 space available. This will provide standard RAID-5 style redundancy. (6x750 for RAID-Z2) My confusion is that I see a lot of people suggesting cutting it up for mirrored RAID-Z setups. The main reason for this is performance right? I am fine with standard USB 2.0 performance and RAID-5 (or 6) functionality but with the added capability of data integrity checking/self-healing/etc/etc. I don't need to build some crazy array. Just something for SOHO use, sharing files over samba to a couple Windows machines + a media player. Side note: Is this right? "ditto" blocks are extra parity blocks stored on the same disk (won't prevent total disk failures, but could provide data recovery if enough parity is available) Thanks, mike _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
