Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:11:33 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <4B7A8B75.5050801@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz> References: <cf9b1ee01002140653m7b20f60bv12b399d80bd92d9a@mail.gmail.com> <4B7980E0.1020907@langille.org> <4B79B6BB.1060809@comcast.net> <201002161054.04696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <4B79E5FE.7040200@langille.org> <4B7A815B.9020502@quip.cz>
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On 2/16/2010 6:28 AM, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > [...] > >>> Why even bother with the LSI card at all? >>> That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want >>> to use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) >> >> Plus two SATA drives in a gmirror for the base OS, and one optical. I >> want a minimum of 8 slots. > > I think that 2 HDDs in gmirror just for base OS is an overkill if you > want this machine as home storage. You will be fine with booting the > base OS from CF card or USB stick. (and you can put two USB flash disks > in gmirror if you want redundancy) > This way you will save some money, SATA ports/cards and if you will use > some kind of fast and big USB stick, you can use part of it as L2ARC for > speeding up read performance of ZFS > http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2010/02/10/making-zfs-faster/ > > 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. I agree. However, the machine will be primarily storage, but it will also be running PostgreSQL and Bacula. I already have smaller unused SATA drives laying around here. Thank you -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/
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