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Yeah I just upgraded a ZFS mirror from 2 x 3TB to 2 x 8TB, using Seagate SMR drives (picked them up for $185 CAD which is super cheap). This is for a media ser
by seabrookmx 7y ago
Yeah I just upgraded a ZFS mirror from 2 x 3TB to 2 x 8TB, using Seagate SMR drives (picked them up for $185 CAD which is super cheap).
This is for a media server so figured SMR would be fine, but the resilver took 28hours!
No checksum errors though, so now that it's done things seem to be humming along fine.
- jandrese 7y agoThat has to hurt the aggregate write performance on the array. You hand it a big chunk of data and it goes ok, calculate the FEC and write to disks 1, 2, 3, 4. And disk 1 is done, disk 2 is done, disk 4 is done, ... , ... , ... , disk 3 is done, now to tell the OS the write is complete and to send me the next chunk.