I’ve spend a few hours reading through the forums and wiki and honestly my head is spinning. I have been trying to study up on either buying or building a box that would allow me to add drives of varying sizes/speeds/brands (adding more later etc) and still be able to use the full space of drives (minus parity? [not sure if I got the terminology right]) with redundancy. I have found the “all in one” solution being Drobo however it has many caveats such as a proprietary setup, limited number of drives (I am looking to eventually expand over 8 drives), and a price tag that is borderline criminal.
From what I understand using ZFS one could setup something like RAID 6 (RAID-Z2?) but with the ability to use drives of varying sizes/speeds/brands and able to add additional drives later. Am I about right? If so I will continue studying up on this if not then I guess I need to continue exploring different options. Thanks!! Cheers, -Gaiko -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
