The time has come to expand my OpenSolaris NAS. Right now I have 6 1TB Samsung Spinpoints in a Raidz2 configuration. I also have a mirrored root pool.
The Raidz2 configuration should be for my most critical data - but right now it is holding everything so I need to add some more pools and move some data around. To start I need a vdev I will call "temp" that acts as a networked bit bucket for me to drop items I want to keep around for a while, but don't really care if I lose any data in there. If I wont be using this in a raidz configuration, just a single drive vdev - can I use any 2TB drive? Even the WD that lie about their sector size? Speed is not really of any importance here. I also need another vdev to store my media backups. These are very large files that take up a lot of space. It would be a bummer if I lost data here, but all of the data is replaceable, it would just take time and effort. I am thinking of RaidZ1 for this data. Are there any 2TB drives that will work with ZFS presently? I am willing to take the risk that if I lost a single disk, that they others wouldn't fail during the stress of a resilver. Write speed doesn't matter to me. But I need read speeds to supply at least 40mbit/second. I have 8GB of ram on this machine with usually 1 sometimes 2 concurrent reads - so I think prefetch should take care of these read demands regardless if the drive is green. So my question for this vdec is.. What is the best 2TB drive available for a raidz1 configuration? Are the samsung F4s a valid option or should I be looking at the seagates? I have pretty much written off the WD due to the 4k/512 byte sector nonsense. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
