December 9, 2025Dec 9 Thanks for checking out this topic. I recently hit the 30 drive limit and after researching a bit I've come to realize I probably don't have my server setup as intended for best practice. At the moment I've got 29 drives connected with 2 of those drives being parity drives, and I have a Super Micro 36 bay chassis I'm looking to fill up. I currently have about 200 TiBs of Linux ISOs on the Array that would not be considered mission critical and can easily be replaced should a drive fail unprotected. My intent is to setup a pool of drives to move all of my Linux ISOs to this pool, and leave everything I would like protected on the Array. Now my question, can I set up the pool with a JBOD sort of arrangement?Are there issues mixing and matching drive manufactures, drive-speed, size, and type?The large majority of my drives are Seagate EXOs drives but they range from 12 to 16 TBs, with only a few 8TB WDs in the mix.
December 9, 2025Dec 9 3 hours ago, techlovin said:Now my question, can I set up the pool with a JBOD sort of arrangement?You can with ZFS stripe or BTRFS raid0/single, use BTRFS single or ZFS stripe if there are different-sized devices, but note that losing a drive loses the whole pool.
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