> 6 NVMe drives in raidz-1 Did you benchmark io rate with different ZFS layouts? 6 NVMe drives in mirrored pairs would probably be substantially higher latenc

> 6 NVMe drives in raidz-1 Did you benchmark io rate with different ZFS layouts? 6 NVMe drives in mirrored pairs would probably be substantially higher latency and throughput Though you'd probably need more pairs of drives to match your current storage size. Or get higher capacity NVMe drives. :)