On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Mr. T Doodle wrote: > I am considering RAIDZ or a 2-way mirror with a spare. > > I have 6 disks and would like the best possible performance and reliability > and not really concerned with disk space. > > My thought was a 2 disk 2-way mirror with a spare. > > Would this be the best in terms of performance?
A six-way mirror will give you the best read performance and data retention :-) You can trade data retention for write performance by a stripe of 2, 3-way mirrors or 3, 2-way mirrors. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
