Recent content by jemann

I concur - one raidz2 vdev. In that configuration, any two disks can fail simultaneously and your data is still intact. With two raidz1 vdevs, two simultaneous disk failures on the same vdev will result in data loss.

Have you configured the SATA controller into RAID mode instead of AHCI in the BIOS configuration?

I took delivery of a new HP Microserver yesterday, which will form the basis of my new NAS/fileserver project. My plan is to use FreeBSD 8.2 amd64, booting from a USB flash drive on the internal USB port and use four large disks in a ZFS raidz configuration. I'm trying to work out which...