I'm receiving components today for my new build and need some drives (I'm short of space anyways) which I'll pickup from Micro Center at lunch today.
I'm looking at 6TB WD Reds. I have 2x 4TB drives (existing mirror). 2x 6TB would be sufficient. However, I'm considering adding the 2x 4TB back to the pool. The idea is that I'll get better performance. I know that sequential reads/writes can exceed the Gigabit network (I think the drives run around 115MB/s). But I'd imagine the smaller files (photos / computer backups) will be faster with two mirrors in the pool.
The downsides would be 4 disks running which can fail and take power to run.
I'm curious to know if what I should expect performance wise moving to 2 mirrors and if it's worth it? I want to figure this out today as if I move the data to the 2x 6TB mirror without the 2x 4TB mirror and add the 2x 4TB later, then the data will be almost entirely on the 6TB mirror so I won't get the performance boost, except for new data.
Thanks!
Ryan
I'm looking at 6TB WD Reds. I have 2x 4TB drives (existing mirror). 2x 6TB would be sufficient. However, I'm considering adding the 2x 4TB back to the pool. The idea is that I'll get better performance. I know that sequential reads/writes can exceed the Gigabit network (I think the drives run around 115MB/s). But I'd imagine the smaller files (photos / computer backups) will be faster with two mirrors in the pool.
The downsides would be 4 disks running which can fail and take power to run.
I'm curious to know if what I should expect performance wise moving to 2 mirrors and if it's worth it? I want to figure this out today as if I move the data to the 2x 6TB mirror without the 2x 4TB mirror and add the 2x 4TB later, then the data will be almost entirely on the 6TB mirror so I won't get the performance boost, except for new data.
Thanks!
Ryan