RAIDZ3 vs 3-WAY Mirror

This scenario is not as ludicrous as you think…

A similar but totally different thing happened to me, where I knocked over a stack of 5 drives… out of 4 stacks… (18 drives total) when moving a system.

3 of those drives failed when re-installed.

Luckily none of them were in the same mirror.

BUT if I had’ve had only two raidz2 vdevs… which was the configuration before I switched to mirrors, then I probably would’ve lost a vdev.

(happy ending, most of the drives were replaced under warranty…)

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