On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 23:59:44 -0700 David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
... > Get at least four internal SATA 6 Gbps ports -- boot disk, optical disk, > two data disks (mirrored). I prefer six. Do most people running servers really want / need an optical disk? As long as the machine can boot via USB, is an optical disk really important for a server? ... > Then Intel stopped making desktop boards and I wanted ZFS. ZFS wants > ECC memory. It was time to migrate to server hardware. My understanding is that ZFS's need / desire for ECC is something of a myth. It's certainly true that many ZFS / FreeNAS *users* have such a need, but the filesystem itself apparently doesn't: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/ Celejar
