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 11 months agoWhen using drives from the same model and batch?
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
So you’re saying I should be running RAIDz2 instead of RAIDz1? You’re probably right. 😂
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
So you’re saying I should be running JBOD?
empireOfLove@lemmy.one 11 months 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.