Hi,
Rbrinson - thanks for the quick reply, I'm glad the motherboard works quite well. Im confident enough to purchase the build above. You're right that I am considering JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). The larger of the three disks will be movies and TV shows, one of the smaller ones is for music, documents and pictures. The final to do scheduled (not raid) delta back ups of the pictures, documents and music i have.
Honey badger - I really appreciate your concerns but I understand that ECC ram (and other compliant hardware) is only required if you are running ZFS. As such I do not need to have ECC.
What are the advantages of ZFS over UFS? The reasons I believe I don't need it are below - are they valid?
1. I do not care so much about data on the large disk, its just movies and TV shows. If it goes it goes, I'll buy a new one and start again.
2. The pictures and documents are backed up to the second small drive. If anything happens to one I'll have the other. I'll replace the faulty drive and run a full back up on the new drive.
3. Improved read and write from ZFS is not a massive concern as streaming of media will at Max be 20mbps.
4. I don't really want to spend money on lots of RAM
Is there anything I missing? Should I really be considering ZFS over UFS?
Thanks again guys.
P.S - sorry for the brevity and any spelling errors - its not so easy to write this on my phone.
Rbrinson - thanks for the quick reply, I'm glad the motherboard works quite well. Im confident enough to purchase the build above. You're right that I am considering JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks). The larger of the three disks will be movies and TV shows, one of the smaller ones is for music, documents and pictures. The final to do scheduled (not raid) delta back ups of the pictures, documents and music i have.
Honey badger - I really appreciate your concerns but I understand that ECC ram (and other compliant hardware) is only required if you are running ZFS. As such I do not need to have ECC.
What are the advantages of ZFS over UFS? The reasons I believe I don't need it are below - are they valid?
1. I do not care so much about data on the large disk, its just movies and TV shows. If it goes it goes, I'll buy a new one and start again.
2. The pictures and documents are backed up to the second small drive. If anything happens to one I'll have the other. I'll replace the faulty drive and run a full back up on the new drive.
3. Improved read and write from ZFS is not a massive concern as streaming of media will at Max be 20mbps.
4. I don't really want to spend money on lots of RAM
Is there anything I missing? Should I really be considering ZFS over UFS?
Thanks again guys.
P.S - sorry for the brevity and any spelling errors - its not so easy to write this on my phone.