From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 08:56:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1E90106566C for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:56:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdq@peterk.org) Received: from poshta.pknet.net (poshta.pknet.net [216.241.167.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422878FC16 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 67286 invoked by uid 89); 19 Nov 2010 08:30:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO pop.pknet.net) (127.0.0.1) by poshta.pknet.net with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2010 08:30:00 -0000 Received: from 216.241.170.11 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsdq@peterk.org) by pop.pknet.net with HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:30:01 -0700 Message-ID: <15996e2cfb833e0ed3fa9d19725b3a95.squirrel@pop.pknet.net> In-Reply-To: References: <4CE52F49.4010602@sentex.net> <218D523D-A5BF-4E37-BC75-2FBF67C1D618@mac.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:30:01 -0700 From: "Peter" To: "Andy Wodfer" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:56:43 -0000 > Thanks a lot to all who responded to my post. > > I have learned lots here. Too bad I have to find another use for my 4 x > 2TB > green WDC drives I have laying around. Anyways - they'll probably end up > as > a temp/work drive on a few Windows stations. > > Btw. will these drive work better in a ZFS "pool/tank" (not connected to a > raid card)? I have noticed on my FreeNAS server that you can group several > drives together into "one" large ZFS "drive". I tend to stay away from raid cards. With ZFS pools all you need is ZFS and any OS [easily move drives around servers], vs. raid cards have to be the same if moving/replacing/card fails. With 'ZFS: do not give it all your HDD' [ http://www.freebsddiary.org/zfs-with-gpart.php ] You don't even need to have drives that are exactly the same. Completely not tied to any hardware.... > > So my conclusion is so far: I'm going to go for the 64bit version of > FreeBSD > and use ZFS (mainly due to error correction), but perhaps UFS for the OS. > I > will use a Raid controller (probably the RocketRaid 2640x1 which I have > here, but may also consider getting a new 3ware card with battery backup), > get the largest Raid Edition drives (need to order them) and use a > separate > Raid 1 for the OS (or worst case simply a SATA connector on the > motherboard > and backup this often) and a Raid 5 for the file storage area. > > Again - thanks a lot for all your help! Very appreciated! > > Best regards, > Andy > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ]Peter[