Comment on Proxmox: data storage via NAS/NFS or dedicated partition
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I could have sworn I read you shouldn’t use zfs on drives smaller than 2tb. IDK maybe I’m going crazy.
Comment on Proxmox: data storage via NAS/NFS or dedicated partition
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I could have sworn I read you shouldn’t use zfs on drives smaller than 2tb. IDK maybe I’m going crazy.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I think you’re thinking of the rule of thumb for RAID5 or the zfs equivalent
raidz1Pete90@feddit.de 10 months ago
I’m curious. Where is the problem with small drives for RAID5? Too many writes for such a small drive?
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 10 months ago
It’s actually the opposite, with only a single drive of parity, once your hard drive is larger than ~2TB the resilver time for the array is high enough that there’s an uncomfortable chance of an additional drive failure while it’s resilvering
Pete90@feddit.de 10 months ago
That makes sense, especially when the drives are equally old. Thanks for explaining it!
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah you are right! My bad. Thanks for clearing that up!