On 23/10/2009, at 9:39 AM, Travis Tabbal wrote:
I have a new array of 4x1.5TB drives running fine. I also have the
old array of 4x400GB drives in the box on a separate pool for
testing. I was planning to have the old drives just be a backup file
store, so I could keep snapshots and such over there for important
files.
I was wondering if it makes any sense to add the older drives to the
new pool. Reliability might be lower as they are older drives, so if
I were to loose 2 of them, things could get ugly. I'm just curious
if it would make any sense to do something like this.
Makes sense to me. My current upgrade strategy is to add groups of 5
disks whenever space is needed, up until physical space is exhausted,
each time getting the current best $/GB disks.
This will result, at times, in having significant amounts of data on
relatively few disks though, impacting performance.
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