[ale] Needing to cut up server disk space

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 09/24/2015 07:03 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> Looking at an enclosure with 8 bays.  The only hitch is the e-sata only
> addresses 5 drives max.  Is there any advantage to running ZFS over
> USB3?  Or would I be better off with raid 10 on the 5 e-sata drives?
> 
> On 09/24/2015 05:32 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> Too bad you don't have 6 drives - then ZFS would be easy choice.
> 


RAID has 1 purpose - HA.
Backups have 1000 purposes - restoring after a RAID bungle is one.

In a lab - I wouldn't bother with RAID.

I would NEVER use RAID on USB devices.