Mr. Bigglesworth
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Hello
I'm running a bit low on storage and need to expand with new disks.
At the moment I'm running 1 zpool consisting of 1 RAID-Z2 vdev with 6 x WD RED 4TB
My idea was to take the vdev apart and create a new one consisting of 9 x WD RED 4TB but in RAID-Z3 instead of RAID-Z2
I could also make mirror vdevs and just expand with 2 drives at a time perhaps in a new zpool?
The reason for creating a new zpool was to only lose some of the data in case 1 vdev fails - Restoring from backup is time consuming.
Any thoughts on this?
My hardware:
Supermicro X10SRI-F
E5-2675v3
128GB ECC RAM
2 x LSI SAS9220-8i flashed in IT mode
Mellanox ConnectX-3
The FreeNAS installation is running in ESXi with 64GB RAM reserved and passthrough on both of the storage controllers.
The network is 10gbit.
Thanks
I'm running a bit low on storage and need to expand with new disks.
At the moment I'm running 1 zpool consisting of 1 RAID-Z2 vdev with 6 x WD RED 4TB
My idea was to take the vdev apart and create a new one consisting of 9 x WD RED 4TB but in RAID-Z3 instead of RAID-Z2
I could also make mirror vdevs and just expand with 2 drives at a time perhaps in a new zpool?
The reason for creating a new zpool was to only lose some of the data in case 1 vdev fails - Restoring from backup is time consuming.
Any thoughts on this?
My hardware:
Supermicro X10SRI-F
E5-2675v3
128GB ECC RAM
2 x LSI SAS9220-8i flashed in IT mode
Mellanox ConnectX-3
The FreeNAS installation is running in ESXi with 64GB RAM reserved and passthrough on both of the storage controllers.
The network is 10gbit.
Thanks
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