ZFS works best with a 64-bit processor and lots of RAM, the more the better, apparently. ![]() ![]() It’s incredible that this marketing swindle is allowed to continue, where you always lose a substantial amount of space compared to the amount quoted on the case and in the advertised specs - where is the European Commission on this one, I wonder? I mean, you buy a 750GB disk and end up with 692GB - what a con! So this choice of components gave a very quiet fileserver, about 1.4 TB of redundant data storage: 2 disks of ~692GB = ~1.4TB for data, plus 1 disk of ~692GB for parity data. ![]() Here’s an image that shows the design brief/constraints that were important to me (click it to view it full size) :įinally, here is the list of components I finally chose and their prices in Europe around mid-January 2008: After deciding that I would use Sun Solaris and its ZFS file system as the foundation for a home fileserver, the next part was to select compatible hardware, as Solaris has fairly limited driver support for hardware.Īfter hunting around on the internet and the Sun Solaris Hardware Compatibility List, I decided on some hardware to make a Solaris/ZFS-based fileserver.
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