ok maybe i should rewrite my question in a better way. My data is mostly made up of things i can afford to lose but would very much not like to lose if a disk dies if at all possible. Due to this i have used a raid5 array in the past. The issue i have had with this is a need to replace all 10 disks at once to increase my storage in the raid and borrow another raid card so i can connect all 20 disks at once while i move the data.
What i would like to be able to do is slowly grow my capacity by replacing 320gb disks with 1tb disks one at a time and sometimes adding in extra disks to the system as i can support up to 12 disks. Does anyone have any ideas on the best way to do this with minimum space loss? This just home based storage so i am trying to do everything on the cheap. I thought raidz may have been the answer but that does not seem to be the case. CHris This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
