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    Cooling: Activate Fans when there is HDD activity

    Hello everyone. I have a server that is almost fanless, but I still need 2 fans for the 6 hard drives that are installed. At first I thought I could just use the hard drives without any fans and while it worked for casual hard drive activity, during a ZFS scrub on two hard drive mirrors, both...
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    ZFS without ECC RAM and chances of corrupting files?

    Thanks for all the responses guys. To clear things up a bit I am worried if data already stored on ZFS could be corrupted during a scrub or a read (say like playing an MP3 file through CIFS). I read all posts, but HobartTas' post seemed to clear up things abit. All pools are mirrored so...
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    ZFS without ECC RAM and chances of corrupting files?

    If ZFS damages those files does it damage just the file that the block is included in or can it cause hard drive wide corruption?
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    ZFS without ECC RAM and chances of corrupting files?

    I'm wondering how ZFS would "fix" the file/block in your situation and if that would harm all copies of the file/block and technically tell you "oops, this file is gone forever" even though its legit on-disk.
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    ZFS without ECC RAM and chances of corrupting files?

    I've been using ZFS for about half a year so far for my storage needs and loving it, While I moved from an ATX setup to a mini ITX (with a Fractal Design Node 304) the subject on using ECC vs non-ECC came up. Although I don't mind losing some files stored, there are others that I would like to...
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    NZXT Sentry 2 Fan Controller Question (need auto off)

    Hi guys, I have 4 Gentle Typhoons running in my ZFS server and although they are very quiet, I can hear them when going to sleep. I was looking at the NZXT Sentry 2 and it seems like it could solve my current problem. The question I have though is, is it able to turn off the fan completely...
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    Virtual Drives and ZFS

    Thanks for the additional information brutalizer. End-to-end checksum is the primary reason why I use ZFS, but I didn't even think of errors induced by outside-of-the-computer-case events like cosmic radiation. I've semi rebuilt my server computer by removing empty drives (I'll add them as I...
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    Virtual Drives and ZFS

    Yes I know, I plan on mirroring the vdev mirrors and storing that copy somewhere else. I was wondering if I could attach and detach so I could scrub to update the backups.
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    Virtual Drives and ZFS

    I no longer have my hard drives in RAID, they are all just paired up in mirrors, as if by horrible luck, both mirrors of one vdev fail, the entire RAID loses all the data. Now I only have pools composed of 2 disks in mirror. I am not after performance in read or write, I just want to be able...
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    Virtual Drives and ZFS

    Thanks for the responses guys, here is basically why I can't give up either machine. Windows: because most, if not all, my applications run under Windows. FreeBSD: because I can use ZFS, which has given me peace of mind even if its overkill just to keep static files. I tried using the lowest...
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    I am teh sadness :(

    Man... after reading your story I feel horrible, I might just suffer with the additional heat and keep my ZFS server. I lost like 200MB of awesome games, plugins, GIFs, and documents back in 1996 on a Mac, I felt like a piece of me was gone. Now I have around 800GB and growing, I'd seriously...
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    Virtual Drives and ZFS

    Hi guys, I had a server running alongside my desktop workstation most of the time but over the past summer the heat output was unbearable. I'd also like to save on space and so I've decided to decommission my server and move the server hard drives into my desktop and run FreeBSD with VirtualBox...
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    5TB?

    And don't forget the salt. HAMR + Salt = 30TB drives
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    Can't import ZFS pool

    Ah okay, so that was the problem, all the drives already had NTFS partitions when I built the pool. I hit another roadblock, after formatting with dd count=100 I can't create a new pool with the drives: Flac-Frigate# zpool create media mirror ada0 ada1 mirror ada5 ada7 mirror ada6 ada8 mirror...
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    Can't import ZFS pool

    How do you format a drive so it is ZFS formatted? I expected zpool to do it automatically but it didn't when I built the pool.
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