On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:06:38PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new > desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and > speed. > Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz. > > I am not going with SSDs as they are beyond my budget. I believe I can get > the required performance from 7200 HDD using RAID with added redundancy and > enough storage space without the price penalty of SSDs.
You don't say what your storage requirements are and what your performance requirements are. You might consider a small SSD and a pair of N-terabyte hard disks in RAID1. Put performance-critical things on the SSD, and keep a backup on the hard disks, along with non-performance-critical data. I've assessed my desktop data usage, and I think I can get away with a 120G SSD and a single 1 TB spinning disk, using rsnapshot to copy the SSD a few times a day. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111013191000.gi16...@tao.merseine.nu
