My main server doubles as a both a development system and web server for my work and a media server for home. When I built it in the early days of ZFS, drive prices were about four times current (500GB were the beading edge) and affordable SSDs were a way off so I opted for a stripe of 4 2way 320GB mirrors. This gave me good small read/write performance for compilation and enough capacity for media. Now I''m looking at replacing the box something quieter and cooler. With the improvements in ZFS and media, I''m looking at splitting the pool: A mirror of 2TB drives for media and a mirror of SSDs for build workspaces. Which leads to my question: Are people splitting pools based or workload, or opting for a single pool and cache devices? -- Ian.