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On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 06:35:10PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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>> I don’t really care about performance. It’s a simple media archive powered |
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>> by the cheapest Haswell Celeron I could get (with 16 Gigs of ECC RAM though |
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>> ^^). Sorry if I more or less stole the thread, but this is almost the same |
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>> topic. I could use a nudge in either direction. My workplace’s storage |
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>> comprises many 2× mirrors, but I am not a company and I am capped at four |
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>> bays. |
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>> So, Do you have any input for me before I fetch the dice? |
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>IMO the cost savings for parity RAID trumps everything unless money |
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>just isn't a factor. |
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>Now, with ZFS it is frustrating because arrays are relatively |
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>inflexible when it comes to expansion, though that applies to all |
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>types of arrays. That is one major advantage of btrfs (and mdadm) over |
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>zfs. I hear they're working on that, but in general there are a lot |
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>of things in zfs that are more static compared to btrfs. |
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>Rich |
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When planning for ZFS pools, at least for home use, it's worth thinking |
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about your usage pattern, and if you'll need to expand the pool before |
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the lifetime of the drives rolls around. |
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I incorporated ZFS' expansion inflexibility into my planned |
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maintenance/servicing budget. I started out with 4x 2TB disks, limited |
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to those 4 bays as you are, but planned to replace those drives after a |
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period of 3-4 years. |
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By the time the first of my drives began to show SMART errors, the price |
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of a 3TB drive had dropped to what I had paid for the 2TB models, so I |
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bought another set and did a rolling upgrade, bringing the pool up to |
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6TB. |
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I expect I'll do the same thing late next year, I wonder if 4TB will be |
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the sweet spot, or if I might be able to get something larger. |
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Richard |