I am archiving a vast amount of media files that are rarely accessed. I’m writing large sequential files, at peaks of about 100MB/s.

I want to maximise storage space primarily; I have 20x 18TB HDDs.

I’ve been told that large (e.g. 20 disk) vdevs are bad because resilvers will take a very long time, which creates higher risk of pool failure. How bad of an idea is this?

  • xxbiohazrdxx@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Draid removes the capability of variable stripe widths, however. Strongly recommend a special metadata device when doing draid with the same level of redundancy as the rest of the pool.

    • zrgardne@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If you have lots of small files, yes this is bad.

      For videos the space lost will just be a rounding loss.

      Would be interesting to test for music. A 100k 20mbyte files. You could lose a lot of space if using 1 mbyte+ stripes that have been recommended for a while now.