I have 4 8TB 7200 rpm drives. How do you recommend I set it up?
I am thinking of doing something like 2 vdevs with 2 mirrored disks in each, and striping the 2 vdevs. Is this even possible? Or do you recommend another approach.
I want good performance, but also some redundancy.
RAIDZ1 = 1 disk redundancy, 3 disks of data
RAIDZ2 = 2 disk redundancy, 2 disks of data
Mirrored = 2 disk redundancy, 2 disks of data. BUT if you lose 2 disks in the same vdev you lose the pool. Best IOPS performance, RAIDZ? may win on read performance
Yes you can have 2 vdevs of mirrored disks striped together. This is the most adaptible setup.
