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You seem to be fundamentally misunderstanding me I guess because nothing you are writing here makes sense for what I am proposing. Why did you pull a drive fro
by SirMaster 1y ago
You seem to be fundamentally misunderstanding me I guess because nothing you are writing here makes sense for what I am proposing.
Why did you pull a drive from your RAIDZ1 to purposefully degrade it?
I am not sure why you keep saying 18TB. Your drives are 8TB. I am suggesting that you should have simply bought another 8TB disk so you wouldn't have to degrade your RAIDZ1.
- mtlynch 1y agoOh, I see. I thought you meant I should buy an 18 TB drive, move my data there, blow up my pool, create a RAIDZ2 pool, then move my data back. Yes, I agree I could have reduced the risk of pool failure if I bought an extra 8 TB disk and not degraded the pool. So, it came down to do I for sure spend an extra $120 on an extra drive or do I just take the <1% chance that one of my three other disks fails in a 6-hour window while I'm migrating data. I took the chance, but I also had my data backed up in cloud storage at the file level in case there was a pool failure. In other words, it wasn't worth $120 to me to avoid a <1% risk that I'd have 8ish hours of hassle of recovering from cloud backup after a pool failure.
- fn-mote 1y agoReally enjoyed the write up. I have to point out that the surprise risk of the $300 bill from Wasabi dwarfs the cost of the 8TB extra disk. In retrospect, I would have paid the money for the lowered risk, but everybody has a different tolerance for that. Again, great work and very detailed.
- mtlynch 1y agoThanks, I appreciate it!