ZFS mix disks diffrent size and speed in a pool

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Wed Oct 3 08:12:53 UTC 2018


That will be fine, you wont benefit from the extra space or speed but it 
will just work.

On 03/10/2018 09:07, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
> Hello,
>
>     we actually have a storage solution based on a DELL 630 + 3 JBODs 
> DELL MD 1420 (HBA mode),
>
> The ZFS pool is made of 9 raidz2 vdevs + 1 mirror log + 2 spares
>
>     All disks are of the same type in capacity and speed.
>
> The problem is that DELL is unable to provide the SAME kind of disk 
> (capacity AND speed)
>
> when a disk has to be replaced. So the question is:
>
> Is it possible to replace a 1TB 7200rpm by a 1.2TB 10000rpm disk 
> without any consequences for the existing pool ?
>
> THanks in advance
>
> Best Regards
>
> JM
>



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