[TriLUG] Recommendations for NAS with Solid State Drives

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, Matt Flyer via TriLUG wrote:

> One problem I have heard about creeping up on RAID volumes, especially
> large ones, is that they get into an error state and take so long to
> rebuild, that they effectively can't recover

Here's from Jim Salter, who gave a talk to TriLUG on ZFS a while back.

short answer: Use mirroring

http://www.openoid.net/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs-not-raidz/

(I'm running 8 zfs mirror pairs here at home.)

Joe


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