Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:40:24 +0200 From: "Valentin Bud" <valentin.bud@gmail.com> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5 TB server Message-ID: <139b44430811280640g69d4843bq276b9aa2c8aa725d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081128145705.A5057@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <139b44430811280548x36915301i766bfb15f162c8ca@mail.gmail.com> <20081128145705.A5057@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: >> >> I thought of going on the ZFS way (on FreeBSD of course) with some > > i think you already tested it well and compared to normal UFS. Well when ( if ) i'm going to actually buy the server i will so some tests with ZFS and some with UFS. On the ZFS side the most attractive thing is the backup and of course the easiness of administration. > >> raidz. One of the problems >> is that the server will stay in their office so it has to be quite silent. >> >> I honestly don't know what hardware to look for so if you have any >> suggestions >> i'm more than open to hear them. > > if i were you i would get any motherboard with 8 SATA ports, up to 8 1TB > disks, cheapest available CPU, good PCIe gigabit cards or two. 8x1TB with some mirroring + striping would equal how much in terms of available space? Sorry i have to do my homework regarding RAID :|. > > if it has to be single volume i would use gstripe, or if it should be > protected somehow - graid3 or graid5, and use UFS. > > if it's not that important - simply making each whole drive as one > filesystem and multiple mount points. > > i strongly recommend later way - in case of any problems it's easiest to > solve. > Thank you for you thoughts, v
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