From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 21 17:02:44 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36D3553 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:02:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ateve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01a.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4FA8FC0C for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:02:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=rpi-1.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TbDhs-0007bw-Ih for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:03:24 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by rpi-1.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TbDhn-0003zU-Mg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:03:19 +0000 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:02:24 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home "Server" Message-Id: <20121121170224.050a75901803b08bf33b56fa@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:02:45 -0000 On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:12 -0600 Nicholas MIller wrote: > My question(s) regard storage. Depending on which case I end up using or > if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard > drive bays. The only things I really *need* redundancy for would be the > centralized backups. Which has me leaning towards zfs. However since I'll > probably want to use some of the space from the drives in that pool, but > won't need redundancy I'm not quite sure how to proceed. With that many drive bays, and the low cost of disc space I'd go for a big ZFS mirror for storage and put just about everything on it. You might have some data that doesn't need to be mirrored but I'll bet there's not much that wouldn't be a PITA to lose. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith