From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 16 11:54:35 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BE6106566B for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:54:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C71E8FC17 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:54:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-157-119.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.157.119]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1GBsUBB079278 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:24:31 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:24:13 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B79E5FE.7040200@langille.org> <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1454622.p4Q8vdztbO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002162224.24636.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.744 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Dan Langille Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:54:35 -0000 --nextPart1454622.p4Q8vdztbO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > I have my backup storage machine booted from USB stick (as read-only > UFS) with 4x 1TB HDDs in RAIDZ. It is running one and half year > without problem. Yeah, I am booting off a 4Gb CF card with adapter (I didn't trust the=20 BIOS enough for USB :) I wouldn't use it for a remote system without redundancy but for a home=20 setup a very lightly used flash device seems like an obvious (and cost=20 effective) choice. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1454622.p4Q8vdztbO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLeodw5ZPcIHs/zowRAkpUAJoCX8cwt27/yRNNG2dpTL8DtaV2OACdF4Eg Sl5Z4k7UqBT7kUCizE3b9Ko= =Xjci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1454622.p4Q8vdztbO--