I'm looking at building a FreeNAS server with 36 disks. I'm leaning towards setting up three vdevs of 11 disks each in RAIDZ3. That would leave 3 spares but I'd read that 11 is the largest preferred size for RAIDZ3. The three vdevs would then have the data striped across similar to a raid-60.
Would that be the recommended setup for something this large?
Is there any practical limit to the number of vdevs that could be added to the zpool if additional disks were added?
Other things I should consider before moving forward?
Would that be the recommended setup for something this large?
Is there any practical limit to the number of vdevs that could be added to the zpool if additional disks were added?
Other things I should consider before moving forward?