I plan to build a 3TB x 3TB x 3TB Raid Z (WD Green in Mac Pro), giving me 6TB of usable space.
I'm currently testing with a 500GB USB drive before I purchase the above disks. My test zpool appears on my desktop and is usable as a drive, just like any other. So i'm wondering… are there any cons to using it this way? ie forgo the use of Datasets and just load all my data on to the zpool and create top levels folders for 'Work', 'Photos', 'Movies', etc, rather than datasets for them?
What am I missing here? What are the pros to datasets? i understand you can snapshot and roll them back independently, and I assume send/receive independently, but am I missing anything else?
Am I 'holding it wrong' by not using datasets?
