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HI All, I have a dilemma and I would appreciate advice 1. Get a good size case, mobo, processor, etc and put 8 hard drives it in and RAID them. (yes an 8 port SATA mobo). Running CentOS. or 2. Get an eSATA enclosure that has room for 8 or 10 drives and just connect it to box? I know that RAID is not a full proof backup, but I am looking for a solution to store all of my data, projects, music,

...PCI1 2 available PCI PCI2 3 in use PCI PCI3 1 available PCI Express PCIE1 2 available PCI Express PCIE2 3 in use PCI Express PCIE3 root at opensolaris2:~# iostat -E cmdk0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Model: ST31000340AS Revision: Serial No: 9QJ Size: 1000.20GB <1000202305536 bytes> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0 Illegal Request: 0 cmdk1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0 Model: ST31000333AS Revision: Serial No: 9TE Size: 10...

...lun 0 ada1: <OCZ-VERTEX4 1.5> ATA-9 SATA 3.x device ada1: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada1: Command Queueing enabled ada1: 122104MB (250069680 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada1: Previously was known as ad1 ada2 at ahcich2 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 ada2: <ST31000340AS SD04> ATA-7 SATA 1.x device ada2: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada2: Command Queueing enabled ada2: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada2: Previously was known as ad2 ada3 at ahcich3 bus 0 scbus3 target 0 lun 0 ada3: <ST2000DL003-9VT166 CC32&g...

...y CD's using grip and produce flac files. I tag the music using Musicbrainz' Picard and transcode it to mp3's within Picard using a plugin that I wrote. Picard is a python based app and uses the Mutagen library to tag files. I'm working on a MacPro with 10GB ram and using Seagate ST31000340AS drives updated to the latest firmware (SD1A). The system is running 9-STABLE from late June. It is ZFS only and boots from a mirrored pool that provides a bunch of zfs filesystems, including my home directory. I recently realized that some of the flacs were corrupt and have been chasing down the...