2010-10-13, 01:35
If you have the $$ you can also put your ZIL onto SSD drives or use them as swap. Or add one as a hot spare (which it will automatically fail over onto).
Hell right now I took all my mismatched IDE drives I have left. Tossed them into a case. Made it RaidZ1 and it's an alternative server.
ZFS really blurs the line between 'device', 'partition', etc. You just add devices to a vdev which is added to a pool.
So my "home" pool could be 2, mirrored vdevs made up of 6 drives in Raidz2. Meaning 2 drives from EACH separate set of drives to fail before I lost things.
And you could always just build a backblaze for $1000 and start adding drives as you go.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/pet...d-storage/
Hell right now I took all my mismatched IDE drives I have left. Tossed them into a case. Made it RaidZ1 and it's an alternative server.
ZFS really blurs the line between 'device', 'partition', etc. You just add devices to a vdev which is added to a pool.
So my "home" pool could be 2, mirrored vdevs made up of 6 drives in Raidz2. Meaning 2 drives from EACH separate set of drives to fail before I lost things.
And you could always just build a backblaze for $1000 and start adding drives as you go.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/pet...d-storage/