Message from @porco
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4 disks, but i want to expand
ZFS can't expand with single disks
one hard drive already broke, it sent a mail, resilvering was a breeze
How many disks do you want to have?
i have 8 bays
How large are the single disks going to be?
8TB
Mh that's too large for raid6
i don't want to run hardware raid
Does your NAS have reliable external backups?
Or are you using raid as a backup? (don't)
there's nothing on there
there's 4 unpartitioned disks in it
and a 500GB 970 evo plus
How much reliability do you need?
And do you rather read or rather write?
(you can see selecting a raid level is science)
i was just going to put plex and a torrent client on it
i don't buy into the raid5 is broken meme either
single parity disk is fine for me right now
and 3 data disks for 24TB effective
Then go Raid6 anyway
raid6 is two parity disks
Yes believe me
I've had the second disk failing during a restore way too often in my life
if i go raid6 with 4 disks i might as well go raid10
same effective space and a way better solution
`Or are you using raid as a backup? (don't)`
w-what senpai
I thought you want to expand to 8 disks though
i do
@futuremoe yes raid is NOT a backup
Once you have 8 disks, Raid6 is nicer than 10
Except for writing speed
when you say you had second disks fail during rebuild
did you ever scrub your arrays
hmmm
Nvm I misread
Did you ever = yes
How often = not enough
Still I wouldn't risk it