In “Anthony is a consumer” news, four 2 Tbyte SSDs that I got for cheap on ebay arrived yesterday. Now I need to figure out how best to arrange them into a storage cluster. I prefer ZFS mirrored arrangements but I covet the space that you’d lose and I don’t worry as much about reliability for this particular one. So maybe I’ll go with ZFS RAIDZ.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I use ZFS-RAIDZ2 myself on my array.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I guess as you said, pros/cons right? I’m planning on buying a secondary NAS (also running ZFS) and I’m tossing up between whether I go with a 2-way mirrored vdev setup or RAID-Z1. I mean if you have decent backups, there’s no worry right? 🤔 Just potential downtime of “data”.