brenderrodriguez

Hi Everyone, i am not sure if this is the right place to ask the question so please excuse the fact if that's the case if one is in need for more than the default 30 drives in the main array, what are the options at hand that include parity ? I thought about either having an unraid vm with pro license inside the main unraid and an external sas card passthrough to the vm but i am not how reliable it would be irl. another alternative would be using a zfs pool with raidz3 ? is that the same as the main array with the exception that one can't mix and match hdd sizes ? i've read that we can't expand pools as of yet but it's coming soon, could i still expand existing pool after the future update or will it require create a new pool and copying the data to the new pool ? ideally i would like to use another array but that feature AFAIK is nowhere near completion. i'd like to have the main server either handle all the load or share cpu/ram/power consumption with the secondary instance through a vm with the ultimate goal to save on electricity, most drives are set to spin down and the instance has an acceptable power consumption unless its computing parity. let me know If anyone has any other ideas. Cheers