> On the other hand, the pool of 3 disks is obviously
> going to be much slower than the pool of 5
while today that's true, "someday" io will be
balanced by the latency of vdevs rather than
the number... plus two vdevs are always going
to be faster than one vdev, even if one is slower
than the
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Tim Cook wrote:
> So I have 8 drives total.
>
> 5x500GB seagate 7200.10
> 3x300GB seagate 7200.10
>
> I'm trying to decide, would I be better off just creating two separate pools?
>
> pool1 = 5x500gb raidz
> pool2= 3x300gb raidz
... reformatted ...
> or would I be better off
So I have 8 drives total.
5x500GB seagate 7200.10
3x300GB seagate 7200.10
I'm trying to decide, would I be better off just creating two separate pools?
pool1 = 5x500gb raidz
pool2= 3x300gb raidz
or would I be better off creating one large pool, with two raid sets? I'm
trying to figure out if
