On 8/22/08, Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoher note, as someone said earlier, if you can go to 16 drives, you > should consider 2 8disk RAIDZ2 vDevs, over 2 7disk RAIDZ vDevs with a spare, > or (I would think) even a 14disk RAIDZ2 vDev with a spare. > > If you can (now or later) get room to have 17 drives, 2 8disk RAIDZ2 vDevs > with a spare would be your best bet. And remember you can grow into it... 1 > vDev and spare now, second vDev later.
This is actually probably a good idea for me, as buying that many disks right now would be a huge dent in the budget. Although it's for a good cause, I have a network of slowly overheating drives in USB cases with data spread all over the place. Bitrot is a daily concern. I guess I can go with an 8 disk raidz2 to start with; and add a second one later. That's a decent % of the overall cost of the machine going towards parity... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
