How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
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How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
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Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#2It's hard to ignore improper apostrophe usage when it's featured this prominently.
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#3It's hard to ignore improper apostrophe usage when it's featured this prominently.
It's widely accepted to use an apostrophe s to form the plural of single digit numbers. See, for example, https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe
(This comes up a lot in math for variable names too)
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#4[Original] OP here.
I wrote this five years ago and it stands up pretty well. HP Microservers are a great device but if I were to build a new one today I'd look into using one of the many cheap ARM boards (NB: ZFS allegedly needs 64-bit to be stable) with disks in a USB-attached enclosure. Performance with USB3 should be enough for any home NAS and the hardware should come out even cheaper. There may even be ARM-based NAS boxes on the market that'll do the job.
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#5It's hard to ignore improper apostrophe usage when it's featured this prominently.
It's widely accepted to use an apostrophe s to form the plural of single digit numbers. See, for example, https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/punctuation/apostrophe (This comes up a lot in math for variable names too)
It appears you are correct, thanks for pointing this out. It's pretty amusing that I was just schooled on grammar by somebody who calls himself "dubya". :)
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#6ZFS is great and all, but I'd like to see more comparisons between different ZFS "distros"/forks/versions. Afaik (almost?) all current ones are based on OpenZFS upstream, but it is difficult to find what version of it various distros have used, and what sort of customizations have been added. The main ones I'd be interested in hearing more of are:
* FreeBSD/FreeNAS
* ZFS on Linux/Ubuntu ZFS
* Illumos derivates (SmartOS/OmniOS/OI)
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#7[Original] OP here. I wrote this five years ago and it stands up pretty well. HP Microservers are a great device but if I were to build a new one today I'd look into using one of the many cheap ARM boards (NB: ZFS allegedly needs 64-bit to be stable) with disks in a USB-attached enclosure. Performance with USB3 should be enough for any home NAS and the hardware should come out even cheaper. There may even be ARM-base…
Have you measured the average power draw of this box? Does the hardware support wake from LAN traffic sent to it?
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#8[Original] OP here. I wrote this five years ago and it stands up pretty well. HP Microservers are a great device but if I were to build a new one today I'd look into using one of the many cheap ARM boards (NB: ZFS allegedly needs 64-bit to be stable) with disks in a USB-attached enclosure. Performance with USB3 should be enough for any home NAS and the hardware should come out even cheaper. There may even be ARM-base…
16gb will work no worries :-)
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#9ZFS is great and all, but I'd like to see more comparisons between different ZFS "distros"/forks/versions. Afaik (almost?) all current ones are based on OpenZFS upstream, but it is difficult to find what version of it various distros have used, and what sort of customizations have been added. The main ones I'd be interested in hearing more of are: * FreeBSD/FreeNAS * ZFS on Linux/Ubuntu ZFS * Illumos derivates (Smart…
Re: How I Store My 1's and 0′s (2012)
#10[Original] OP here. I wrote this five years ago and it stands up pretty well. HP Microservers are a great device but if I were to build a new one today I'd look into using one of the many cheap ARM boards (NB: ZFS allegedly needs 64-bit to be stable) with disks in a USB-attached enclosure. Performance with USB3 should be enough for any home NAS and the hardware should come out even cheaper. There may even be ARM-base…
I'd recommend against using raid-z(X) on a USB enclosure. The throughput to each disk just isn't there.
Also, my experiences using ZFS(onlinux) without any raid (i.e. single disk with "copies=" > 1) is that it wasn't very resilient against any kind of I/O error - even if the cable was bumped or something. This has resulted in the loss of a whole zpool and restore from backup.