It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Flat-One-7577 on 2024-06-19 22:41:21.

Hi,

I am going to build a 16 disk data storage. This will mainly be a "backup" to store data for some time and not need to recreate it again. Recreation would be expensive.

I have few very big files and a lot of small one.

Main focus is having a lot of storage. I/O is not so important.

Having 16x 22TB disks attached to a MegaRAID 9500 Controller I am asking myself what would be the prefered setup?

Variant A:

• HW Raid60
• on top ZFS

Variant B:

• JBOD Mode on Controller for songle Disks
• ZFS

-- create 2 RaidZ2 vdevs (6+2) and stripe them

Variant C:

• JBOD Mode on Controller for songle Disks
• ZFS

-- create one RaidZ3 vdev

What would you do?

Regards,

Joachim