Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server

Re:Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server by notmyname on Saturday May 16, 2009 @03:26PM (#612499)

It sounds like what you are looking for is a Drobo (www.drobo.com). It has some shortcomings, but it is great for dead-simple backups that protect against hard drive failure.

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Re:Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server by joshu on Saturday May 16, 2009 @05:36PM (#612627)

I am excited about drobo but I've heard too many horror stories.

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Re:Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server by weaksauce on Saturday May 16, 2009 @06:15PM (#612670)

What kind of horror stories?

I am looking for something like this instead of tape backups. I looked at some NAS devices that hold five drives and seem pretty robust. One of the devices can mirror itself to another NAS over the network so you can have two separate places to store your data and not have a hardware failure of one device kill the other.(one exception would be the case where the master device gets degraded to the point where bad data is being written to it and then propagates the changes to the other device. I don't know how likely this failure situation is though.)

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Re:Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server by joshu on Monday May 18, 2009 @02:19PM (#615403)

I've just heard whispers of data loss bugs more than a few times. I recommend some searching.

I think the dual NAS idea is a good one; I'm considering it.

I do crave a higher bandwidth connection to disk.

I wish OS X would ship with ZFS. A mac mini + zfs + JBOD seems fascinating.

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Re:Solaris + ZFS = The Perfect Home File/Media Server by rjurney on Saturday May 16, 2009 @03:46PM (#612520)

Thanks, that is very interesting. Not ZFS apparently, but that is the product I described.

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