On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > I don’t really care about performance. It’s a simple media archive powered > by the cheapest Haswell Celeron I could get (with 16 Gigs of ECC RAM though > ^^). Sorry if I more or less stole the thread, but this is almost the same > topic. I could use a nudge in either direction. My workplace’s storage > comprises many 2× mirrors, but I am not a company and I am capped at four > bays. > > So, Do you have any input for me before I fetch the dice? >
IMO the cost savings for parity RAID trumps everything unless money just isn't a factor. Now, with ZFS it is frustrating because arrays are relatively inflexible when it comes to expansion, though that applies to all types of arrays. That is one major advantage of btrfs (and mdadm) over zfs. I hear they're working on that, but in general there are a lot of things in zfs that are more static compared to btrfs. -- Rich
