Comment on Can I use two different drives?

• empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup. Same age, same design, same failures… and array rebuilds are super intense workloads that often force a lot of random reads and run the drive at 100% load for many hours.

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• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve heard just in general. The resilvering process is hard on all the remaining drives for an extended period of time.

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So you’re saying I should be running RAIDz2 instead of RAIDz1? You’re probably right. 😂

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    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I made that switch a few years ago for that reason.

      That said, as the saying goes, RAID is not a backup, it should never be the thing that stands between you having and losing all your data. RAID is effectively just one really dependable hard drive, but it’s still a single point of failure.

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      • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So you’re saying I should be running JBOD?

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