FleurDeLis425
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I am starting a new free NAS box and I am trying to figure out the best way to configure the drives. I plan to buy 3TB ones. My throught process is one of the following:
1) Buy 2 at a time (starting with 4) and expand as I need by creating mirrored vdevs for each drive and putting them in the zpool.
2) Buy more drives up front, such as 5 or 6, and put them in a raid-z. My concern about that is the rebuild time of larger drives and I am not sure I will fill up those drives as fast. Thus ending up with drives that will wear out before being filled.
Any insight or advice is welcomed.
Thanks.
1) Buy 2 at a time (starting with 4) and expand as I need by creating mirrored vdevs for each drive and putting them in the zpool.
2) Buy more drives up front, such as 5 or 6, and put them in a raid-z. My concern about that is the rebuild time of larger drives and I am not sure I will fill up those drives as fast. Thus ending up with drives that will wear out before being filled.
Any insight or advice is welcomed.
Thanks.