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    ZFS CPU - Avaton C2750 or Pentium G3220

    In this case there probably won't be enough drives in the pool to justify 10GBE. Funny thing is I just noticed there is also a cheaper quad core version of Supermicro Avaton board. Things are starting to get all muddled here - lots of interesting options! Cost wise the C2550 setup is similar to...
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    ZFS CPU - Avaton C2750 or Pentium G3220

    Thanks for the advice everybody. Thats a good shout, but I think the Pentium would be enough for pure file serving duties - at least given my limited experience with G2020T on a microserver. Thanks this is very helpful info. I'd like to provide around 200MB/s aggregate out to the network...
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    ZFS CPU - Avaton C2750 or Pentium G3220

    Hello guys. I'm looking to build a small ZFS box (5x SATA RAIDZ - WD RED PRO) for home video editing. I had previously decided to build a bigger rack based box. For this application single core performance looks to be important as neither ZFS and SMB are multi-thread. Looking around I've...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    That is really quite something. Previously we would have had to use LVM or the features integrated on the hardware controller (then risk expanding the filesystem to use the additional space). Most of all its nice to be able to split the purchase of the drives - which would otherwise be a fair...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    So one could theoretically have a single Z2 pool of 6x 3TB (12TB usable). Later it would be possible to add another 6 drive group, which will give update giving a single 24TB volume? ...I imagine my interpretation is incorrect here. I read that folks criticise ZFS for this, but it doesn't...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    OK - If you'll indulge my curiosity a little further...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    Thanks again for the help dandragonrage. I think I am starting to understand the concept of expansion a little better. In short, there is no way to readily increase the 'usable space' available to a vdev (without starting over). However, one can add additional groups of drives at any time...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    The idea of adding another storage pool makes sense. The part that I find abstract is adding more drives to increase the pool capacity, without having to start over :confused: When using a striped-mirror vdev (R10 equivalent) my impression was that you can dynamically extend storage pool...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    Past a certain point you have to just jump in and order the gear - I’m getting near to that I guess :-) Another option could be to use a mirror, which I believe will resilver a bit faster. Then again the problem with mirroring is the utilisation of space, although it is easy to add pairs...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    Hello dandragonrage, thankyou for the detailed reply. I'm pleased to hear that you have also had good experiences with ZFS on Linux. My story with 3ware and LSI has been much the same as yours - drives getting dropped for seemingly no reason. That said, in those cases I had not adhered exactly...
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    RAID controller recommendations for Debian Wheezy

    Hello all, I have been reading this board for years, but this is my first post :-) I’m trying to spec a Linux powered storage rack based on Supermicro’s 826TQ chassis (12x SATA , built in port expander, so usable with most 4i cards). It will be used for video edit storage at home and will...
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