Recent content by FrozenPie

My computer is currently being shipped. I was about to order 5x2TB raidz2 5k3000 until I saw these Hitachi Deskstar 3 TB CoolSpin on slickdeals. Data sheet here says they're 512k sectors. SOO quick question is: spend $400 on 5x2TB drives in raidz2 or $321 3x3TB drives in raidz1? I'm leaning...

Cool thanks! Trying to keep everything really simple, I'll stick with SE11, grab the Intel NIC, and go with 5 x 2 TB raidz2 for sure. I'll also just stick with 16 GB since ram is super cheap anyways. I'm ordering everything but the HDDs tonight; waiting a few days to check out slickdeals for...

I've been lurking here for a while now and reading about ZFS has caught my interests. I want to build an efficient low power, good performance NAS for my home network as my summer project before school starts. My network includes: a Motorola SB6120 modem, Netgear WNDR3700 router, Trendnet...