Alex, I imagine that you've spent/will spend dozens or perhaps hundreds of hours ripping your MP3's. Don't even think about skipping backups. Budget in the cost of backups, preferably off site backups, even something you can carry to work and lock in your desk. Buy a four drive USB enclosure and 4 1TB drives. That would work. As reliable as zfs is, there's no technological fix for natural disasters, or human error. My 2 cents.
Jon Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure this has been asked many times and though a quick search didn't > reveal anything illuminating, I'll post regardless. > > I am looking to make a storage system available on my home network. I need > storage space in the order of terabytes as I have a growing iTunes collection > and tons of MP3s that I converted from vinyl. At this time I am unsure of the > growth rate, but I suppose it isn't unreasonable to look for 4TB usable > storage. Since I will not be backing this up, I think I want RAIDZ2. > > Since this is for home use, I don't want to spend an inordinate amount of > money. I did look at the cheaper STK arrays, but they're more than what I > want to pay, so I am thinking that puts me in the white-box market. Power > consumption would be nice to keep low also. > > I don't really care if it's external or internal disks. Even though I don't > want to get completely skinned over the money, I also don't want to buy > something that is unreliable. > > I am very interested as to your thoughts and experiences on this. E.g. what > to buy, what to stay away from. > > Thanks in advance! > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- - _____/ _____/ / - Jonathan Loran - - - / / / IT Manager - - _____ / _____ / / Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley - / / / (510) 643-5146 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ______/ ______/ ______/ AST:7731^29u18e3 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
