From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 14:40:25 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 C5B5B1065675 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com (ey-out-2122.google.com [74.125.78.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572ED8FC0C for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valentin.bud@gmail.com) Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so595946eyi.7 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:40:24 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=TfZuiGoQR74+jVSO7lyzMlCi6qUlMHsuirc79jM/QTo=; b=ZzD2bJLwYCvbHlEecULSi/JAWItXTYDO9MTUY7IR341w7qrhgMkQxD9jcZ93QEsYov hhx1Jz4MYWoWMQrTH/EVYqnUqdbi2mFPFu6I8OTDINXgPCZLcvIQowW8N8jqCMZyk75W 7EbsDBI//4vHBfupKWDVlN7GZ2AVH8Icem0JI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=FUiWisWcI6XzimM9dhKAsgr1Nir7kFffNkpxgnq5ZX60JDu77CU4i0qX4ohEErDZOs 0/oq0yGTIG8UNE+nwnKcBBVvggfQkDPQ3y7Uzy93R7OcVrrfQfit5KFR/UA0HtNeUd2T iYmS6RHwbhHMcDmebI3lLbtqqW6o6APgCI79g= Received: by 10.210.139.15 with SMTP id m15mr8886579ebd.118.1227883224125; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.210.117.7 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:40:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <139b44430811280640g69d4843bq276b9aa2c8aa725d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:40:24 +0200 From: "Valentin Bud" To: "Wojciech Puchar" In-Reply-To: <20081128145705.A5057@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <139b44430811280548x36915301i766bfb15f162c8ca@mail.gmail.com> <20081128145705.A5057@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 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 14:40:25 -0000 On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> 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. Well when ( if ) i'm going to actually buy the server i will so some tests with ZFS and some with UFS. On the ZFS side the most attractive thing is the backup and of course the easiness of administration. > >> 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. 8x1TB with some mirroring + striping would equal how much in terms of available space? Sorry i have to do my homework regarding RAID :|. > > 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. > Thank you for you thoughts, v