Max number of disk in one Pool?

[dvldwg1986]

Good day to all,

Okay let me start by giving the stats of what I currently have:

Windows Home Server v.1, 24 hard drives totaling 33 Tb

Folders Size
Music 55 Gb
Photos 11 Gb
Public 5 Tb
Software 86 Gb
Tv Shows 33 Gb
Movies 7 Tb

Data total 12 Tb

Now my question is since the wiki states

"When determining how many disks to use in a RAIDZ, the following configurations provide optimal performance. Array sizes beyond 12 disks are not recommended.

Start a RAIDZ1 at at 3, 5, or 9, disks.

Start a RAIDZ2 at 4, 6, or 10 disks.

Start a RAIDZ3 at 5, 7, or 11 disks."

Is there really a limit to the number of disk in a ZFS pool? What would you recommend for me? I do not want to have several pools, must be wife friendly. Any help would be appreciated!!!

 

[Stephens]

You need to list your drive sizes because FreeNAS can't just pool drives of different sizes. Read noobsauce80's ZFS primer. You probably want to set up multiple raidz(1-3) vdevs.

 

[paleoN]

Without any other information provided I would suggest 4 x 6 x disk raidz2 vdevs in a single pool. Optionally you could run striped mirrors with 16.5 TB raw space. That might be a bit small if your data is still growing and your at 12 TB already.