----- Original Message ----- > > I'm building my new storage server, all the parts should come in > > this week... > > How did it turn out ? Did 8x1TB Drives seem to be the correct number > or a couple too many (based on > the assumption that you did not run out of space; I mean solely from a > performance / 'ZFS usability' > standpoint - as opposed to over three dozen tiny Drives).
It's quite possible to stack up hundreds of drives for ZFS, just don't put them all in the same vdev. Say, you have 32 2TB drives, split that into 4 RAIDz2 vdevs in the same pool, and both speed and safety will be good. Also, add a couple of fast SSDs for the SLOG if you expect lots of sync writes (NFS, iSCSI etc) and some other (cheaper?) SSDs for L2ARC to help out reads. This is particularly important if you want your server to work well during scrub (osol does NOT work well during scrub performance-wice unless you use SLOG and perhaps L2ARC). Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
