uek2wooF Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 I can't figure out what the parity drive does for me anyway since it is not a replacement for taking backups, so I'd rather have the extra space and performance I think. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Parity is there for a measure of high availability, where if a drive won't accept a write request without error it allows you to continue working as normal until you can solve the issue vs. requiring a restore from backups which can take some time. Running with no parity will speed up writes, reads will remain the same, as parity isn't involved in read operations under normal circumstances. The user share file system also adds some overall performance penalties, to get max speed you would need to use disk shares only and turn off the user share system. Quote Link to comment
uek2wooF Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 How would you know if the drive was having trouble? Also does it matter if it is the parity drive or another drive with the issue? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 14 minutes ago, uek2wooF said: How would you know if the drive was having trouble? Also does it matter if it is the parity drive or another drive with the issue? Thanks. There would be notifications on all the configured places. Hopefully you have email notifications set up. All disks in the parity array are treated equally when it comes to write failure. Quote Link to comment
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