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On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, at 09:28, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> > I incorporated ZFS' expansion inflexibility into my planned |
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> > maintenance/servicing budget. |
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> What was the conclusion? That having no more free slots meant that you |
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> can just as well use the inflexible Raidz, otherwise would have gone with |
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> Mirror? |
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Correct, I had gone back and forth between RaidZ2 and a pair of Mirrors. |
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I needed the space to be extendable, but I calculated my usage growth |
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to be below the rate at which drive prices were falling, so I could |
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budget to replace the current set of drives in 3 years, and that |
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would buy me a set of bigger ones when the time came. |
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I did also investigate USB3 external enclosures, they're pretty |
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fast these days. |
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I apologize if my web client has mangled my message. |
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Richard |