Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:01:59 +0100 From: John <freebsd-fs@potato.growveg.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: newbie zfs query - usb3 or sata? Message-ID: <20131002170159.GA6937@potato.growveg.org>
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Hello freebsd-fs. I have a possible newbie question, and am not sure if this should go into -hardware: I have the situation where I need to add more hard drives but I haven't got the space in the existing box. So I have two choices - make a DAS box out of a SATA connection or make one out of a USB3 connection (using a Highpoint usb3 card with 4 ports and 4 channels). I'll be ZFS-ing them together on 9.2-R. The question is, under zfs which kind of setup will be better? I can stick 8GB RAM into the machine. I want to get 4x 4Tb drives. With the 4-port card, one will go into each port. Similarly with a 4-port SATA. Performance-wise is there much in it, and will ZFS be able to handle it. The machine is a desktop. The other thing I need to know is, should the machine die, can I just pull the card/disks and put it into another freebsd machine, install zfs and expect the data to still be there? thanks, -- John
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