jace92
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- Dec 14, 2021
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Hey all!
I'm actively working on increasing the storage on my TrueNAS deployment from 2x mirrored 14TB Exos drives to 3x in RAIDZ1 but while researching this I've seen A LOT of warnings and chastisement for doing RAIDZ1 (especially with drives that large). I've seen that the resliver process increases the chance for another failure thus losing everything, however, for someone like me who can really only get drives once I've saved up it's kinda hard NOT to want to do RAIDZ1.
Is it really as bad as I've seen in other posts? I've also seen that the bad is overhyped but those posts are few.
I do have a 2nd machine as my backup server that only turns on once a week to pull the data from the main one and then shuts off after a few hours as well as an offline backup of my stuff. As my storage increases, though, those both get a little tricker to do.
I'd like to hear whatever you have to say about it!
Thanks!
I'm actively working on increasing the storage on my TrueNAS deployment from 2x mirrored 14TB Exos drives to 3x in RAIDZ1 but while researching this I've seen A LOT of warnings and chastisement for doing RAIDZ1 (especially with drives that large). I've seen that the resliver process increases the chance for another failure thus losing everything, however, for someone like me who can really only get drives once I've saved up it's kinda hard NOT to want to do RAIDZ1.
Is it really as bad as I've seen in other posts? I've also seen that the bad is overhyped but those posts are few.
I do have a 2nd machine as my backup server that only turns on once a week to pull the data from the main one and then shuts off after a few hours as well as an offline backup of my stuff. As my storage increases, though, those both get a little tricker to do.
I'd like to hear whatever you have to say about it!
Thanks!