I have a computer that contains 8 1TB drives. I have 3 USB drives that are 750MB. So that''s a total of 11 drives. Can I install solaris or opensolaris on the first harddrive and mirror it on the second harddrive? Can I then use the 9 remaining drives as a RAID-Z2? Will there be a problem with using USB drives? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On Thu, November 20, 2008 14:43, Krenz von Leiberman wrote:> I have a computer that contains 8 1TB drives. I have 3 USB drives that are > 750MB. So that''s a total of 11 drives. Can I install solaris or > opensolaris on the first harddrive and mirror it on the second harddrive? > Can I then use the 9 remaining drives as a RAID-Z2? Will there be a > problem with using USB drives?A disk is a disk and so things should work fine, but I don''t know what kind of performance you''re going to get: USB is notorious for sucking CPU. (Of course most of us have cycles to spare, but still.)
On Fri 21/11/08 08:43 , Krenz von Leiberman theshadowgate at gmail.com sent:> I have a computer that contains 8 1TB drives. I have 3 USB drives that are > 750MB. So that''s a total of 11 drives. Can I install solaris or opensolaris > on the first harddrive and mirror it on the second harddrive? Can I then > use the 9 remaining drives as a RAID-Z2? Will there be a problem with > using USB drives?--It will work, but it will cost you performance and capacity. The USB drives will slow down the pool and you will only be able to use 750GB (I assume 750MB was a typo) of the 1TB drives. Maybe install on the USB drives and use the internal drives for your raidz2. -- Ian.