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[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:52:12 -0600
Nicholas MIller <nick.kyky at gmail.com> wrote:

> My question(s) regard storage.  Depending on which case I end up using or
> if i purchase a new one, will have access to either 4(four) or 6(six) hard
> drive bays.  The only things I really *need* redundancy for would be the
> centralized backups. Which has me leaning towards zfs.  However since I'll
> probably want to use some of the space from the drives in that pool, but
> won't need redundancy I'm not quite sure how to proceed.

	With that many drive bays, and the low cost of disc space I'd go
for a big ZFS mirror for storage and put just about everything on it. You
might have some data that doesn't need to be mirrored but I'll bet there's
not much that wouldn't be a PITA to lose.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve at sohara.org>