hunter
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I currently use two 6 Tb drives in a mirror and backup to individual 3 Tb drives (one uses snapshots and another drive uses rsync).
My data is finally surpassing the 3 Tb limit of my backup drives so I am considering building a 7 Drive RAID Z3 with my backup drives and 5 other 3 Tb drives I have. Then I would re-use the 6 Tb drives for future backups.
The storage is mostly used to store digital media and a small amount of excel worksheets, personal photos, etc.
I understand the 7 drive array would have less IOPS (maybe limited by the slowest drive in the array) and will use more power, on paper it looks like it will be more reliable in a mttdl sense.
Are the FreeNAS veterans out there aware of additional trade-offs I should consider?
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My data is finally surpassing the 3 Tb limit of my backup drives so I am considering building a 7 Drive RAID Z3 with my backup drives and 5 other 3 Tb drives I have. Then I would re-use the 6 Tb drives for future backups.
The storage is mostly used to store digital media and a small amount of excel worksheets, personal photos, etc.
I understand the 7 drive array would have less IOPS (maybe limited by the slowest drive in the array) and will use more power, on paper it looks like it will be more reliable in a mttdl sense.
Are the FreeNAS veterans out there aware of additional trade-offs I should consider?
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