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I don't believe that's true. My 10 drives are attached to an OpenSolaris NAS in ZFS RAIDZ2. They've never been used with Windows.

I have 10 of these drives. All have a high program fail count. Most of them are 600k+. I don't think it's a problem.

Hi, I found the ZFS vdev link most useful. I haven't had much trouble with all this stuff...it all makes sense..The only problem is that I've seen tons of tutorials that add multiple vdevs to a single pool but not one mention the error message that I received. In fact, that link mentions that...

For anyone interested... I used OpenIndiana (zpool v28) with some new Samsung HD203UIs (4k) and applied a patch to the zpool command to allow ashift = 12. I also used the magical number of drives in RAIDZ and tested performance with bonnie++. You can check out the results here if you're...

OK, Quick but simple query (I think). From the reading I've done on ZFS...the picture in my mind tells me that I could have a single zpool and in that have multiple sized RAIDZ2. For example, if I had 10x 2TB, 6x 1.5TB and 4x 1TB, I could have a single zpool that contains a 3 RAIDZ2s of 10x...

Hmm, I'll take a look at that card thanks. The Norco store site lists this as a "data cable option" for the 4224: http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=215 Is there a technical reason why you can't do that? I'm new to anything SAS pretty much. Also if you are connecting all 24...

Not quite sure yet...probably this (nothing server grade): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131631 From what I understand I can go SFF-8087 fan out to 4x SATA and just plug them directly into the motherboard. What model is the Supermicro card? I think I was looking...

Hi, Just wondering what the best options are to connect the 6x SAS SFF-8087 ports in a Norco RPC-4224....preferably the cheapest. Going to use OpenSolaris and ZFS, so no need for RAID...but does obviously need to be Solaris compatible. I was looking at a HP SAS Expander but in Australia...

Hi all, I'm planning on building a new storage box for myself (ON THE CHEAP ;)). I'm a bit of a newbie to the area...so if anyone can help out answering these questions, that'd be fantastic! Last year I built myself a cheap server without doing too much research. At the moment I currently...