First I want to thank everyone for their input, It is greatly appreciated. To answer a few questions:
Chassis I have: http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/846/SC846E2-R900.cfm Motherboard: http://www.tyan.com/product_board_detail.aspx?pid=560 RAM: 24 GB (12 x 2GB) 10 x 1TB Seagates 7200.11 10 x 1TB Hitachi 4 x 2TB WD WD20EARS (4K blocks) I used to have (selling it now) a 3Ware 9690SA controller, and had setup rather poorly. I added drives to the RAID6 array, and then created new partitions on it which were concatenated via LVM. I ran EXT3 as a filesystem as well. Firstly, the 3Ware controller was ok, but the limitations with HW raid were what brought me to ZFS. Mainly the fact that you cannot shrink the size of a RAID6 HW array since it has no knowledge of the FS. Most of the VM's and data files I store here are not critical. I make backups of the important stuff (family pictures, work etc). I also backup the data within the VM's so if their disk files are ever lost it is not too much of a problem. >From what you guys have said, adding slow drives to the pool will cause them >to be a bottleneck in the pool. I am just finishing up some copying etc, and >will benchmark a test pool with the 2TB drives. Even if they are fast enough, >I think It would be better to create a seperate pool for them, and store only >data which can be lost. Also, do you guys have any suggestions for this: I have a desktop running windows 7, it runs off of an SSD. Would setting up NFS or iSCSI (even possible?) to install other apps on be worth it? I am guessing it would be easier to just pop a regular drive in it instead.. Thanks again! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
