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		trollied on May 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server You have to factor in the power usage of having multiple drives spinning. Though I’d agree that smaller drives are better when you have a drive failure, as resilvering is quicker.

throw0101a on May 29, 2022 [–]

OpenZFS 2.0's sequential resilver may help:

* https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/10349

* https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.0.0

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