My first post. I'm looking for a solution for my large amount of data, mostly family pictures and video. Measured in terabytes. Currently I have built an OpenIndiana (successor to OpenSolaris) computer, which of course uses ZFS. Currently accessing it via iSCSI from the Mac. It works, and the speed is pretty good, but I wouldn't mind the simplification of having the ZFS volume right on the Mac.
I'm thinking the best box I could build for this purpose would be a Mac Pro so that I could have many SATA-connected drives. By occupying both optical areas, I could have 6 HDDs, assuming I use an OWC bootable SSD PCIe card for the OS. This gets me close to the 8 that I'm running in the OpenIndiana box and would be sufficient for a long time. The drives would be configured as RAIDZ or RAIDZ2.
Anybody running Zevo CE on a Mac Pro with lots of drives? Anybody see any issues? Any bright ideas on using something less expensive like an iMac but still having 4-6 drives directly exposed to the OS?
And... thanks to Don Brady and all involved for this. I love Macs and I love ZFS, so the two need to be together. Shame on Apple for nixing it!