FreeBSD RAID how-to

[Oko]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Raid.jpg

 

[ralphbsz]

Printed, will be posted on my office door, to amuse colleagues who walk by.

 

[abishai]

I suspect it's general purpose guide, not FreeBSD specific...

 

[forquare]

I do love that picture, been using it to help explain RAID to non-techie managers for about eight years.

 

[silicium]

In the same water dispenser analogy, how should be drawn RAID-Z for non-techies ? To show off ZFS, maybe with smaller bottles feeding the larger ones, through lots of tubing, sensors, pumps and motor valves, with a PLC and HMI displaying a water treatment plant schematic.