Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Fri Jan 2 15:08:07 UTC 2009


> Hi freebsd-questions,
>
> For personal use (photo/video storage), I'm looking into creating a huge
> single ZFS (raidz) volume that will replace my current collection of
> drives used as storage. I'm thinking 4*1TB drives in RAID5(z).

think twice before doing.

>
> My question is regarding the flavour of drivers that one can choose
> from: Desktop class drives, or the so called RAID/Enterprise class drives.

but cheap drives they are OK.


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