Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:24:13 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <201002162224.24636.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz> References: <cf9b1ee01002140653m7b20f60bv12b399d80bd92d9a@mail.gmail.com> <4B79E5FE.7040200@langille.org> <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz>
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--nextPart1454622.p4Q8vdztbO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > I have my backup storage machine booted from USB stick (as read-only > UFS) with 4x 1TB HDDs in RAIDZ. It is running one and half year > without problem. Yeah, I am booting off a 4Gb CF card with adapter (I didn't trust the=20 BIOS enough for USB :) I wouldn't use it for a remote system without redundancy but for a home=20 setup a very lightly used flash device seems like an obvious (and cost=20 effective) choice. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1454622.p4Q8vdztbO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLeodw5ZPcIHs/zowRAkpUAJoCX8cwt27/yRNNG2dpTL8DtaV2OACdF4Eg Sl5Z4k7UqBT7kUCizE3b9Ko= =Xjci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1454622.p4Q8vdztbO--
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