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

[Steve Bertrand]

Steve Bertrand wrote:
> dick hoogendijk wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:17:30 -0500
>> stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>>>>> think twice before doing.
>>>>> Could you elaborate please ?
>>>> ZFS still doesn't work as described ...
>>> Is that comment FreeBSD specifc, or aimed at ZFS in general?
>> Mind you, ZFS on FreeBSD is not the same as on OpenSolaris-2008.11,
>> Nevada or even Solaris 10. On those platforms ZFS generally does what it
>> is supposed to do, other than it's still a developing FS.
>> On *BSD related systems that is not always the case. Do a good readup.
> 
> I had problems with ZFS about a year ago (or so).
> 
> Since then, for me, ZFS has been quite reliable:

I forgot to mention... the "Since then" should have also included that
at the time of unreliability, I was testing a new NVidia motherboard.

"Since then, I've swapped out the board to an Intel hardware platform".

Steve