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Is a 20 disk raidz3 really a bad idea, for media archiving use cases? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by goldcakes@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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I am archiving a vast amount of media files that are rarely accessed. I'm writing large sequential files, at peaks of about 100MB/s.

I want to maximise storage space primarily; I have 20x 18TB HDDs.

I've been told that large (e.g. 20 disk) vdevs are bad because resilvers will take a very long time, which creates higher risk of pool failure. How bad of an idea is this?

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[–] Dagger0@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I've been told that large (e.g. 20 disk) vdevs are bad because resilvers will take a very long time

They won't really take any longer than on narrower vdevs unless you're hitting CPU or controller throughput limits.