Alec Muffett wrote: > As I understand matters, from my notes to design the "perfect" home > NAS server :-) > > 1) you want to give ZFS entire spindles if at all possible; that will > mean it can enable and utilise the drive's hardware write cache > properly, leading to a performance boost. You want to do this if you > can. Alas it knocks out the "split all disks into 7 & 493Gb > partitions" design concept. > > 2) I've considered pivot-root solutions based around a USB stick or > drive; cute, but I want a single tower box and no "dongles" > > 3) This leads me to the following design points: > > - enormous tower case with 10+ bays A good alternative is a smaller case with 6 bays and two 5 way SuperMicro cages. Better for space and drive cooling.
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