Apr 28, 2022 · Spare drives are not worth it in my opinion. If the system is at home, you can easily access it and do not need a spare drive. If the system is far away, instead of just sitting there …

RAID-Z3 of 11x 8TB drives or 2x RAID-Z2 of 6x 8TB drives. Both net the same usable pool of storage. This is mostly for single-user archival storage / backup / media files. Here's the …

May 22, 2006 · The lower F is, the GREATER the advantage of RAID-Z3 over RAID-10 for minimizing chance of data loss. If F=1%, then the probability of data loss with RAID-Z3 is only …

Mar 22, 2019 · Bad sectors are only a problem if you have already lost two drives and you will lose the stripe where the bad sectors actually are and hence you will then lose the file(s) that …

Apr 18, 2023 · RAID-Z3 (3 disks working on parity): 9 disks*100 MB/s=900 MB/s. This information (and more) can also be found in the book: FreeBSD Mastery by Michael W Lucas and Allan …

Feb 4, 2022 · 15 votes, 21 comments. true. Yes, the TrueNAS docs are talking about a single mirror vdev having slower sequential I/O than a RAID-Z vdev whereas those articles are …

Dec 30, 2019 · Is ten 10TB drives in a ZFS raid too many? Or would Z2 or Z3 be sufficient to survive rebuild on disk failure

Jan 12, 2018 · Mathematically speaking (in sense of data safety vs. disk failure) 12 disk RAID Z3 is safer than 2 x RAID Z2 6 disks. Why: Because on Z3 3 random disk can fail and you are still …

Dec 17, 2013 · This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people

Jan 27, 2021 · 12 votes, 30 comments. I'm looking at setting up two ZFS servers for general purpose NFS. One will be the primary with 120 12TB Hard drives.