Hi all, (Posting via email due to my forum account being marked inactive!)
So i'm re-visiting OpenSolaris and ZFS. Context is my old file server died (Windows 2008 with 4 drives on an Intel Matrix ICH9 controller in RAID 5) and i'm moving into a new house and want to build something new and flashy. I want to use up the old hardware I have laying about rather than sell it all for a loss and buy new (relating mainly to disks here). I have the following hardware laying about: Intel 3200SH Server board + E7200 CPU. 4GB RAM. 2 x SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 SATA controllers (so 16 ports in total, plus 6 on the motherboard) Disks: 3x40GB, 1x250GB, 4x500GB, 4x1TB and looking to buy some 2TB disks to fill the gap (unless advised against here) My storage requirement is as follows: Personal/Business Documents - 100GB+ - Medium performance - High resiliency VMWare storage (for virtual disks) - 200GB+ - High performance - High resiliency Various Media - 2TB+ - Medium performance - Medium resiliency So with the hardware I have available to me, this is first-glance config I see viable: 2x40GB Mirror for boot/OS 4x500GB RaidZ2 (or higher?) for Docs + VMWare images Remaining disks configured RaidZ2 for all other storage Not sure what to do with the other disks, other than have a spare perhaps for OS I would appreciate any thoughts/opinions/configurations anyone would like to recommend for me. I am not adverse to buying some other disks if there are big advantages to adding say another 500 or something as a spare. I'm fairly open on this. I may have missed out some relevant information, so let me know if I need to fill in any gaps. Thanks in advance: _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
