TasMot
Dabbler
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- Sep 15, 2011
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Hi,
This is a new to ZFS question. I had a freenas server that was cobled together from old parts. When I realized that using Carbonite to make back-ups of my systems was cost prohibitive (18 virtual machines plus 2 physical machines at $59 per was going to be $1,180/year for backups), I decided to go with a FreeNAS system to hold my backups instead. So I bought some new guts, motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard), CPU (AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX), RAM 8 Gig of RAM (Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model TXD38192M1600HC9DC-D ) and disks (Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM ). Now I knew I would lose some space for going with RAIDZ2. However; what I am showing is that after getting everything set up, I created the RAIDZ2 array and ended up with 3.5 TB of space. Is this correct? I started with 8TB and ended up with less than half. That doesn't seem quite right. If I were to quickly get another 2 TB drive and add it, would that bump up my space to 5.5 TB?
Thanks for your help,
Tom
This is a new to ZFS question. I had a freenas server that was cobled together from old parts. When I realized that using Carbonite to make back-ups of my systems was cost prohibitive (18 virtual machines plus 2 physical machines at $59 per was going to be $1,180/year for backups), I decided to go with a FreeNAS system to hold my backups instead. So I bought some new guts, motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard), CPU (AMD FX-4100 Zambezi 3.6GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor FD4100WMGUSBX), RAM 8 Gig of RAM (Team Xtreem Dark Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model TXD38192M1600HC9DC-D ) and disks (Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive - OEM ). Now I knew I would lose some space for going with RAIDZ2. However; what I am showing is that after getting everything set up, I created the RAIDZ2 array and ended up with 3.5 TB of space. Is this correct? I started with 8TB and ended up with less than half. That doesn't seem quite right. If I were to quickly get another 2 TB drive and add it, would that bump up my space to 5.5 TB?
Thanks for your help,
Tom