I have only considered Raidz2.
But now 4 large drives in z2, w room to add 2 more. Instead of 6 drives w. no expansion possibility.
I’ll have a look in the drawer, and see if i have some old 3.5".
Wonder if putting in all 6 would make the drive cage-mount balance better too.
But the 304’ seems to be “quality”, and cage mounts are not “thin sheet” optimized by some eager “designcost saver”.
I think i need to clarify my post above, where i refer to backups on my Supermicro (Primary NAS) , and also referred to my “Backup Epyc NAS - 6 x 4TB”
It was a bit confusing.
My Epyc would inherit the 4TB drives that’s currently in the Supermicro.
And will be 3’rd storage for important data, powered on weekly to zfs replicate from Supermicro.
While i’d love to have same capacity as on the Supermicro, my budget won’t allow that.
So i guess i’ll make a “ToEpyc” dataset on the Supermicro, with “most important data”, and keep that at max. 10…12TB
I did read the “Fester series” - Thank you for making that.
And i also saw the @Stux - Tired replication on YT.
