I did try that when building my current home server with just one USB stick. My experience was that the resulting OS is quite a bit slower, may be due to a bad choice of stick on my part.
Anyway, I ended up with 1x500GB rpool disk and 5x2TB RAID-Z1 pool using an Asus mATX motherboard and i3-2120T. Alex. On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Sašo Kiselkov <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm considering rebuilding my home server (an HP MicroServer) for some > higher capacity and dumping the single 250GB rpool disk and instead > replace it with a pair of USB flash sticks (no need to preserve data, > I'll copy stuff around and help the system along with booting). The > question is, is this a good way to go about it? I plan on using the USB > sticks only for holding rpool and booting off of them. All other data > will be on a RAID-z consisting of 4x 2TB disks, so speed isn't all that > necessary. I'm somewhat constrained by the number of SATA ports > available, but I have plenty of USB slots (1 internal and 6 external) > where I could put the media (and since the box is hidden away in a > closet, nobody is ever going to be touching it). > > Are there any gotchas with using USB attached storage as boot media in > OI? Any experience with that? (For all I know, it's smooth and working.) > > Cheers, > -- > Saso > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
