Hi all,
I've got a HP N54L and have been running OMV for a while. All is well, but I've been considering adding more storage after playing around with the almost complete ZFS plugin.
I currently have 4 drives in the N54L's 4 bays in a soft RAID. I am considering moving those to a RAID-Z2 but expanding at the same time.
The ideal number of drives for a RAID-Z2 is:
4, 6, 10, 18, 34 etc for 4K sector HDD's.
6 drives probably won't be enough and 18 is a little overkill for my needs so I am considering 10 x 4TB drives.
I have been looking around for a JBOD enclosure and have come across the Icy Box IB-3680SU3 8 bay enclosure.
My questions is: can anyone confirm that the eSATA port in the HP N54L supports port multiplier under Debian Wheezy? Also, has anyone plugged 8 disks into it?
Thanks