Hi, I just bought 3 external 2TB disks, WD Elements. I was thinking about how to make the best use of them. My FreeBSD system is a bit old, Athlon 3200+ with 1GB ram. I have no problem upgrading the software.
I would preferr to be able to access my drives as a single volume (samba) and I would preferr to have some redundancy. The usage for this is a file dump for my home network where I will store backups and such, but I will also use it for some IO-intensive work.
What would you recommend in this case? RAID5+UFS? ZFS/RAID-Z? Are any of those even possible with external drives, or am I just asking for trouble here?
I would preferr to be able to access my drives as a single volume (samba) and I would preferr to have some redundancy. The usage for this is a file dump for my home network where I will store backups and such, but I will also use it for some IO-intensive work.
What would you recommend in this case? RAID5+UFS? ZFS/RAID-Z? Are any of those even possible with external drives, or am I just asking for trouble here?