Keven
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Hi,
I have currently 4X4TB in RAIDZ1 and I'm slowly starting to outgrow the space. For the future I was planning to add another vdev to the pool and I would like to get at least 8tb drives, but for 8tb drive it start to be too big for my like with just 1 drive of redundancy. As mentioned on this forum as the drive get more TB the chance of a second drive failing increase.
So to keep at least 75% of space efficiency I thought of buying 8x8TB drives in RAIDZ2 which would max out nicely my case while leaving 2 5.25inch Bay so I can out hdd for replacing a failing drive
So basically my initial plan was to add a 8 drive vdev to my pool which have already 4 drives vdev... Is it possible I might have misread some post about being able to mismatch vdev, I'm not sure.
My GOAL is having a single SMB share which reference the 4x4tb and 8x8tb it would be ok to have separated pool if absolutely needed.
This NAS main uses is for a plex server over a 1 gigabit connection so for the performance its already maxing out the Lan. I know that with mismatched vdev it can affect performance a little bit. But I don't think I will see a difference for my use case.
I have currently 4X4TB in RAIDZ1 and I'm slowly starting to outgrow the space. For the future I was planning to add another vdev to the pool and I would like to get at least 8tb drives, but for 8tb drive it start to be too big for my like with just 1 drive of redundancy. As mentioned on this forum as the drive get more TB the chance of a second drive failing increase.
So to keep at least 75% of space efficiency I thought of buying 8x8TB drives in RAIDZ2 which would max out nicely my case while leaving 2 5.25inch Bay so I can out hdd for replacing a failing drive
So basically my initial plan was to add a 8 drive vdev to my pool which have already 4 drives vdev... Is it possible I might have misread some post about being able to mismatch vdev, I'm not sure.
My GOAL is having a single SMB share which reference the 4x4tb and 8x8tb it would be ok to have separated pool if absolutely needed.
This NAS main uses is for a plex server over a 1 gigabit connection so for the performance its already maxing out the Lan. I know that with mismatched vdev it can affect performance a little bit. But I don't think I will see a difference for my use case.