> So every every single time you loose any drive in a mirror setup you risk all the data on all drives in the entire pool. Not true. If you lost all the drives

> So every every single time you loose any drive in a mirror setup you risk all the data on all drives in the entire pool. Not true. If you lost all the drives in a mirror vdev, you lost those files not the entire pool. More importantly, mirrors are not limited to two drives. You can have any number. I use mirror vdevs with 4 drives.