brando56894
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Currently I have two mirrored pools set up:
Storage (6x 4 TB HGST 7200 RPM)
VMs (I'm using FN10), Usenet/Torrent downloads and Multimedia.
SafeKeeping (2x 1 TB WD Red 5400 RPM)
Largely archival storage: pictures, some Windows downloads that were hard to find :), game installers (since I don't have enough room to install them on my pc and store the massive installers), various config backups that I never remember to use and some adult material haha. The pictures are the only really important things, and those are on Facebook, Google+, and Google Drive.
I split out the pools originally when I was learning about ZFS since somehow I would always manage to destroy my Storage pool when adding/removing/replacing a device to/from the pool which would also cause me to lose my "important" stuff. This way, in case Storage was FUBAR I still had my other pool.
I've decided I no longer need to split them apart and would like to have one pool, eventually with all (but 2 with) 7200 RPM drives (I have 13 bays in my case, 11 of which are 3.5"). I also have 2 150 GB WD Raptors which spin at 10K RPM. I was wondering would it slow down my pool over all if I added in the 5400 RPM and 10K RPM drives considering it would have to deal with drives that have 3 different rotational speeds and latencies, not to mention different overall sizes? I have an SLOG attached to the storage pool but I know that's only useful for sync writes.
Storage (6x 4 TB HGST 7200 RPM)
VMs (I'm using FN10), Usenet/Torrent downloads and Multimedia.
SafeKeeping (2x 1 TB WD Red 5400 RPM)
Largely archival storage: pictures, some Windows downloads that were hard to find :), game installers (since I don't have enough room to install them on my pc and store the massive installers), various config backups that I never remember to use and some adult material haha. The pictures are the only really important things, and those are on Facebook, Google+, and Google Drive.
I split out the pools originally when I was learning about ZFS since somehow I would always manage to destroy my Storage pool when adding/removing/replacing a device to/from the pool which would also cause me to lose my "important" stuff. This way, in case Storage was FUBAR I still had my other pool.
I've decided I no longer need to split them apart and would like to have one pool, eventually with all (but 2 with) 7200 RPM drives (I have 13 bays in my case, 11 of which are 3.5"). I also have 2 150 GB WD Raptors which spin at 10K RPM. I was wondering would it slow down my pool over all if I added in the 5400 RPM and 10K RPM drives considering it would have to deal with drives that have 3 different rotational speeds and latencies, not to mention different overall sizes? I have an SLOG attached to the storage pool but I know that's only useful for sync writes.
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