Another late reply, but I love me some ZFS talk! That particular build worked fine, it was just really slow. It was a very ill-advised plan to begin with - I

Another late reply, but I love me some ZFS talk! That particular build worked fine, it was just really slow. It was a very ill-advised plan to begin with - I was using 5.25" -> 2.5" hotswap bay converters for the 2.5" laptop drives. The idea at the time I guess was less noise and power, but mostly it was just to say I did it I think. Other than it being extremely slow it lasted as my home NAS for 5 or 6 years until I outgrew it. These days I run a 250TB ZFS pool as my "main" pool, utilizing the 8TB Seagate SMR drives of yesteryear. I have had very little problems with them, but it was a very careful pool design after many years of running ZFS on production systems. So far I've had a few drive failures (as expected) and we are probably ticking closer to decade than I'd like to admit. It performs far better than I need it to - as it's very much WORM style storage for backups and media.