Hi guys,
I'm going to build up a NAS system based on FreeNAS (which is FreeBSD 7.2) with the following hardware:
Asrock A330GC — Intel Atom 330 Dual Core
2 Gigs of RAM
a standard ATX case (I think that I can use it for Mini-ITX as well)
and two Western Digital harddrives (1,5 or 1 TB)
my preferred filesystem is of course ZFS
So my question is if I can create a virtual device including both devices (let's say vdev0) as a Raid Z and add one or two hard disks at a later time to that device. Of course Raid Z with 2 devices is just a mirror…
Or is there any better solution… I would also really appreciate some hints at configurations with different drive sizes (for my old drives with noting to do )
My second question is if ZFS makes sense on such a low powered device?
Thank you for your time
I'm going to build up a NAS system based on FreeNAS (which is FreeBSD 7.2) with the following hardware:
Asrock A330GC — Intel Atom 330 Dual Core
2 Gigs of RAM
a standard ATX case (I think that I can use it for Mini-ITX as well)
and two Western Digital harddrives (1,5 or 1 TB)
my preferred filesystem is of course ZFS
So my question is if I can create a virtual device including both devices (let's say vdev0) as a Raid Z and add one or two hard disks at a later time to that device. Of course Raid Z with 2 devices is just a mirror…
Or is there any better solution… I would also really appreciate some hints at configurations with different drive sizes (for my old drives with noting to do )
My second question is if ZFS makes sense on such a low powered device?
Thank you for your time