From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 13:48:47 2008 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 1AE771065673 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A423F8FC19 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:48:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so1913532ugs.39 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:48:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=31wAhIUh1UchWYnoAtKGjsLQnE7PqBuSJcKSJ9Pz+Ak=; b=dXTHcaor9pcxRWTDBg6nw64zyb5h6+xMFNuau/HpKzCP0AXsZQ6Xg885iJO38/Qqfk Rcfn0mozBEyAl7ZsKWO9wnOpCOowqpzU2dsGsAxU6Y0TTO/9CZtnOIA7dptoDxQhXda4 R7E1ISKJE1gisuhIzEH2e3omTf0eSe6hS8zto= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=V4p5FoJgHCI/3Z6O2BU85jxyyehtsHVks8RxTCtikTO3CEu1QvJ9DFK9IjxGHriNZ+ jzgCfGfyuALe1S30Bn2H27ood9z5UDk7NEmjHCL7/dXk4MHiAP13fl1/FHQqjFT1MIwh G+T5W+7l3jhjF3LzxE315q47x42FrbgVcSzwc= Received: by 10.210.59.14 with SMTP id h14mr8841320eba.182.1227880125454; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:48:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.117.7 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:48:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <139b44430811280548x36915301i766bfb15f162c8ca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:48:45 +0200 From: "Valentin Bud" To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: 5 TB server 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, 28 Nov 2008 13:48:47 -0000 Hello community, I have to come up with a solution for a company that has as we speak 4 TB of data spread among 3 computers with lots of HDDs. Of course i've recommend them to buy a server for that storage capacity and for data organization. I thought of going on the ZFS way (on FreeBSD of course) with some 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. a great day, v