One reason I was so interested in this issue was the double-price of "raid enabled" disks.
However, I realized that I am doing the initial proving, not production - even if personal - of the system I'm building. So for that purpose, an array of smaller and cheaper disks might be good. In the process of looking at that, I found that geeks.com has Seagate 750GB Barracuda ES2 drives for $58 each if you'll put up with them being "factory recertified" and only warrantied for six months. Not great, I don't trust "refurbished" or "recertified" anything with archival data; but it's a test system. So I grabbed six of them for the initial build. This gives me a way to compare them against "desktop" systems in an array. May take a while but I can dig some of the issues out. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
