On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Wreede, Matt - PC/Network Technician <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think read speeds are going to be a huge issue, and depending on the > boost it'll bring, it may well be worth it for me to simply add the RAID-5 > arrays as a single drive, and not try to mirror them. The thought of losing a > whopping 5 drives of storage makes me sad :(
You could do RAID 10, which would only lose 4 drives, and have better read & write performance (no parity calculations). You could use RAID1 on the Areca and add the volumes into a zpool for best performance at the cost of ZFS's error recovery, or RAID0 on the Areca and mirroring in ZFS, at the cost of higher resilvering times. On second thought, a zpool made out of 4 zfs mirrors would be the best of both worlds, but then you lose the hot swap advantages of using the Areca. If the Areca cards have a BBU or NVRAM they should give you good performance in any mode. -B -- Brandon High [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The good is the enemy of the best." - Nietzsche _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
