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    Mirror Pools with different size drives in each Pool

    I'm pretty good with windows, but a noob in linux etc. While I've read several explanations, I do not adequately understand vdevs, pools or ZFS. I currently run a 4TB + 1TB HDDs as a spanned volume on windows 10 as a home server and run a backup weekly to secondary drives all over my network...
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    Expanding a RAIDZ with a set of different sized drives.

    Hi! Yesterday, I expanded a RAIDZ volume composed by three drives of 10G each adding a vdev composed by another three drives. These drives have 20G each. I was surprised when I get 60G of storage. I've just lost a 33% because of parity. I've said, I was surprised because I thought that you...
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    RAID 0 with different volumes

    Hello everybody, I have a virtual machine with FreeNAS 11 installed on Virtual Box. I created that for doing experiments and learning to manage this OS. As far as I know, if we build a RAID 0 with drives with different sizes, RAID would only take, from every drive, the equivalent storage to the...
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