Hey,
I'm building a storage with 6 x 2TB drives, to act as a backup server where writes are significantly higher than reads, since the server itself makes backups for many other servers every day.
the actual backup (software) is done on a different machine and this storage would store the backups. better yet, I rather use that server with XenServer or VMWare so that the VM uses the storage itself.
I see three ways to set the pool:
again, I'm looking for speed, specially on writes, since restore from backups would hopefully won't be really needed too often (and if it does, I can wait for it a bit longer).
any thoughts?
I'm building a storage with 6 x 2TB drives, to act as a backup server where writes are significantly higher than reads, since the server itself makes backups for many other servers every day.
the actual backup (software) is done on a different machine and this storage would store the backups. better yet, I rather use that server with XenServer or VMWare so that the VM uses the storage itself.
I see three ways to set the pool:
- RAID10 = (1 x 1) + (1 x 1) + (1 x 1)
- RAID1 = 2 vdevs of 3 drives each.
- RAIDZ2 = 1 vdev of 6 drives.
again, I'm looking for speed, specially on writes, since restore from backups would hopefully won't be really needed too often (and if it does, I can wait for it a bit longer).
any thoughts?