On January 23, 2010 6:09:49 PM -0600 Tim Cook <t...@cook.ms> wrote:
When you've got a home system and X amount of dollars to spend, $/GB means absolutely nothing when you need a certain number of drives to have the redundancy you require.
Don't you generally need a certain amount of GB? I know I plan my storage based on how much data I have, even my home systems. And THEN add in the overhead for redundancy. If we're talking about such a small amount of storage ("home") that the $/GB is not a factor (ie, even with the most expensive $/GB drives we won't exceed the budget and we don't have better things to spend the money on anyway) then raidz3 seems unnecessary. I mean, just do a triple mirror of the 1.5TB drives rather than say (6) .5TB drives in a raidz3. -frank _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss