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I've been using ZFS for a few years now and it's just been amazing. Storage is so cheap these days that it's just much simpler and straight-forward to use mirro
by joekrill 6y ago
I've been using ZFS for a few years now and it's just been amazing. Storage is so cheap these days that it's just much simpler and straight-forward to use mirrored vdevs. If a single drive fails, the pool is still completely usable, and all I have to do is swap out the bad drive (when I get around to it, no hurry usually) and resilver. Resilvering can take a while, but everything is still completely usable while it's happening so it just runs in the background and I don't even notice.
I just upgraded a pool of 4 drives from 4TB each to 10TB - I'd never done anything like that before and was rather nervous, but it was just so simple with the mirrored set up - just swap out each drive and resilver one- by-one.
- jacob019 6y agoThat's risky. Better to add the new drive and re-silver before removing the old drive.