The LSI2008 chipset is supported and works very well. I would actually use 2 vdevs; 8 disks in each. And I would configure each vdev as raidz2. Maybe use one hot spare.
And I also have personal, subjective reasons: I like to use the number of 8 in computers. 7 is an ugly number. Everything is based on powers of 2 in computers. A pocket calculator which only accepts the digits 1-8, but not accept the digit "9", is really ugly (having 7 discs, but not 8, is ugly). Some time ago, there was a problem unless you used even number of discs, that problem is corrected now. I would definitively use raidz2, because resilver time will be very long with 4-5TB disks, potentially several days. During that time, another disk problem such as reas error might occur, which means you loose all your data. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
