Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:00:44 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Valentin Bud <valentin.bud@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5 TB server Message-ID: <20081128145705.A5057@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <139b44430811280548x36915301i766bfb15f162c8ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <139b44430811280548x36915301i766bfb15f162c8ca@mail.gmail.com>
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> > 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. > 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. 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.
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