Is this a good mirror setup?

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sghavim

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hey everyone so lately I was running a 10 disk raids3 setup until i had some errors and my pool got messed up. Luckily no data was lost so i removed all my media and created a new pool. I wanted to have more speed then the slow raidz3 setup I had so i decided to create a mirrored pool. Im using the pool as a media server. Serving up plex and doing some time machine backups. I created a 5x2 disc mirror setup, I hope im saying it correctly. All 10 drives are WD Red 3TB in a Supermicro X8DT6-F motherboard with the LSI controlled flashed to IT mode and passthrough to my FreeNas vm with 4 cpus and 32GB of ram. Im assuming with my mirrored setup that I can lose 1 disk in each mirror vdev without dataloss, but if I lose 2 disks in any vdev them I lose all data.

Thanks in advance!

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BigDave

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It looks good, as long as you understand the risks involved.
Keep a close eye on things, i.e. regular smart testing on those
Stripped Mirrors ;)
Good luck!
 

DrKK

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You were unhappy with the "performance" of your pool on a MEDIA SERVER? Something else is wrong then, I would say. Even the world's slowest/worst FreeNAS configuration would be a hundred times more efficient than most people's "media server" would need.
 

Ericloewe

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You were unhappy with the "performance" of your pool on a MEDIA SERVER? Something else is wrong then, I would say. Even the world's slowest/worst FreeNAS configuration would be a hundred times more efficient than most people's "media server" would need.
Agreed, for reasonable values of "slowest/worst" (Though maybe even a Pentium 4 would survive, given enough RAM...)
 
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