[OpenIndiana-discuss] hardware specs for illumos storage/virtualization server

[Paul B. Henson]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39:56AM +0100, Jim Klimov wrote:

>  From the marketing snippet posted on a local webshop, I see that WD
> (or the shop?) recommends these drives in home/soho NASes of up to
> 5 bays, and they recommend enterprise drives beyond that. I have no

That's the official WD party line, my guess based on the assumption that
if you're buying more than 5 disks you probably have lots of money ;).
I'd think the decision would be based on performance requirements,
though, not number of drives.

> On another hand, especially given the expected lower performance of
> these disks and overall large volume, I'd go with raidz3 to be on
> the safer side. But my wife turned down such a budget a few times ;)

Ouch. The amount of "wasted" storage for raidz2 already hurts bad enough
:).