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On 2013-09-20 5:17 AM, Joerg Schilling |
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<Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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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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Interesting, thanks... :) |
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