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ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Ultimately I would love to use ZFS but I read that it’s difficult to expand/upgrade. Not familiar with ZFS RAIDz1 though, I’ll look into it. Thanks!

I build robots for a living, the power is fine, at least for a rough draft. I’ll clean everything up once the enclosure is set up.

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eneff@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
ZRAID expansion is now better than ever before!

In the beginning of this year (with ZFS 2.3.0) they added zero-downtime expansion along with some other things like enhanced deduplication.

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CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Z1 is just single parity.

Sweet build! I have all these parts laying around so this would be a fun project. Please share your enclosure design if you’d like!

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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
ZFS is so… So much better. In every single way. Change now before it’s too pate, learn and use the features as you go.

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ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Easier to expand than a typical raid 5 array

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- avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This. Also it’s not difficult to expand at all. There are multiple ways. Just ask here. You could also ask for hypothetical scenarios now if you like.
  
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  - ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Could also google it lol
    
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Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
ZFS, specifically RaidZx, can be expanded like and raid 5/6 these days, assuming support from the distro (works with TrueNAS for example). The patches for this have been merged years ago now. Expanding any other array (like a striped mirror) is even simpler and is done by adding VDevs.

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