June 21, 20179 yr Hi Everyone, I am just after a clarification regarding something I see on the wiki and a few other sources. "It is always the slowest drive that limits the speed." My query is, does the entire system sync to the slowest drive on parity protected writes, or is it only referring to if you're transferring to the slow drives or doing a parity check?. For example, If we have a 7200rpm HGST 4TB for parity and similar spec storage drives, when writing to those drive will we see the full potential of those two drives independently (not affected by any others in the pool)?We have some older 3TB drives which are slow (only used for archive/backup and no day to day data is written to these). Of course it's limited by the parity process I get that, I just mean in terms of having other slower drives in the pool, will those affect the good ones. Let's also make an assumption the share is only based on the (faster) drive(s) which is how we currently divide our data anyway. Archives/backups are on our slowest. Cheers Clark.
June 22, 20179 yr 1 hour ago, clark_b said: transferring to the slow drives or doing a parity check?. this
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