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In what situation would increasing the size of a vdev be better than increasing the size of a pool? The submission increases the size of a raidz vdev and that's

• wtallis 5y ago
  > In what situation would increasing the size of a vdev be better than increasing the size of a pool? When you want to add a single drive to expand your available storage capacity, without reducing the degree of redundancy you're already using. That use case should have been obvious given how much discussion it's already received in this thread, so I think you have some kind of blind spot about anything small-scale. This is why it's good to actually understand the competition, even after deciding which tradeoffs are right for you.