ZFS Storage.

[lambchops511]

Hi All.

Trying to build a personal ZFS storage pool, there needs to be some redundancy (e.g., at any one time if a drive dies it would need to be recoverable; but if two drives die I accept I lose data).

I have two Intel SSDs 330 240 GB I can contribute to the pool. I presume I would need to add some rotational disks as well; since an all flash build seems to be a bit pricey at this point. Total size I need around 2 TB of disk (any more would be overkill).

Any suggestions on what OS / build / etc... to get? I presume I would need some fancy ethernet card or 10 GB as well?

 

[blastingcap]

Sorry, I misread your post. Just use the SSDs as L2ARC if you want. 10GigE costs extra, as you noted, but would remove bottlenecks. Is it worth it? Only you can say for yourself.

 

[Silenus]

First of all....we need FAR more information about how and what you need to use it for before any relevant suggestions can be made. Tell us what it's for, what it needs to connect to, how many people/machines are using it, ect...anything else you can think of.

 

[lambchops511]

Just me using it, I dev on several machines and I just thought it would be sweet if I could mount everything onto a single /home directory.

There's a bunch of photos I would like to store as well, don't really care about performance, but I have too many random harddrives lieing around and I don't know what contains what, so I want to stash everything into one big file system.