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Douglas J Hunley <doug.hunley@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 1TB drives are right on the border of switching from RAIDZ to RAIDZ2. |
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> You'll see people argue for both sides at this size, but the 'saner |
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> default' would be to use RAIDZ2. You're going to lose storage space, but |
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> gain an extra parity drive (think RAID6). Consumer grade hard drives are |
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> /going/ to fail during a resilver (Murphy's Law) and that extra parity |
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> drive is going to save your bacon. |
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The main advantage of RAIDZ2 is that you can remove one disk and the RAID is |
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still operative. Now you put in a bigger disk..... repeat until you replaced |
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all disks and you did grow your storage. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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