From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 08:03:38 2010 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 89456106566B for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wodfer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428E88FC13 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg13 with SMTP id 13so2594713gyg.13 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:03:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=TSNKZLOp6DDH32rirMZrCJf4eaEB3NsXrKtNL0oGvJY=; b=x4WMzF5FDN/ywu+PayPoWz+05ho9TEg3mnN48pelGz3Rsuzha89xbal/mMBIgnir5a yuDnFKtKxEGL9XBcfPxHlQ7pqI25DKgIEjBYQ0ccJgTdA1zquIq9xV6z2Ndj+BqFS5Cn Fo2ENhZglhrcKoxYSTyXxMhQHp6puWRT4hoUo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=ekqrYCVEOE+Wb+PMovTi2lXPmqhpAYmUTyH+gFKWw38sQtm9yAui9udquTy5ntk7Ns ngdNGo/+MZCSn64HENfKgipzXi1QHvvPS73B1vV5J2QjXnAt1+tk0f81+nZBh5af+JZI WJ3UTmiAI4rBZem8/qWgBECueurafAzrpFBqg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.231.10 with SMTP id d10mr2236830agh.44.1290153817353; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:03:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.254.3 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:03:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <218D523D-A5BF-4E37-BC75-2FBF67C1D618@mac.com> References: <4CE52F49.4010602@sentex.net> <218D523D-A5BF-4E37-BC75-2FBF67C1D618@mac.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:03:37 +0100 Message-ID: From: Andy Wodfer To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives 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, 19 Nov 2010 08:03:38 -0000 Thanks a lot to all who responded to my post. I have learned lots here. Too bad I have to find another use for my 4 x 2TB green WDC drives I have laying around. Anyways - they'll probably end up as a temp/work drive on a few Windows stations. Btw. will these drive work better in a ZFS "pool/tank" (not connected to a raid card)? I have noticed on my FreeNAS server that you can group several drives together into "one" large ZFS "drive". So my conclusion is so far: I'm going to go for the 64bit version of FreeBSD and use ZFS (mainly due to error correction), but perhaps UFS for the OS. I will use a Raid controller (probably the RocketRaid 2640x1 which I have here, but may also consider getting a new 3ware card with battery backup), get the largest Raid Edition drives (need to order them) and use a separate Raid 1 for the OS (or worst case simply a SATA connector on the motherboard and backup this often) and a Raid 5 for the file storage area. Again - thanks a lot for all your help! Very appreciated! Best regards, Andy