Hello,
I'm new to the forum, as well as new to ZFS. I'm not 100% sure I'm going to settle with ZFS right now, but it's definitely an option.
I have 5 2TB drives, and 10 1TB drives. I'd like to eventually replace the 1TB drives with 2TB drives, but I can't really afford to just buy 10 2TB's at the moment. What would a good plan of action be?
Would it be wise to create 3 raidz vdevs and combine them in 1 zpool? That means if I lose 2 drives from 1 of the vdevs that I lose the entire array correct?
I was actually going to create a RAID6 array with mdadm and just expand it as I bought more 2TB drives. Would this be a better idea than ZFS? I also will probably be using ZFSGuru if I do it.
I'm new to the forum, as well as new to ZFS. I'm not 100% sure I'm going to settle with ZFS right now, but it's definitely an option.
I have 5 2TB drives, and 10 1TB drives. I'd like to eventually replace the 1TB drives with 2TB drives, but I can't really afford to just buy 10 2TB's at the moment. What would a good plan of action be?
Would it be wise to create 3 raidz vdevs and combine them in 1 zpool? That means if I lose 2 drives from 1 of the vdevs that I lose the entire array correct?
I was actually going to create a RAID6 array with mdadm and just expand it as I bought more 2TB drives. Would this be a better idea than ZFS? I also will probably be using ZFSGuru if I do it.