On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, Bill Barry wrote:
I don't know how far into setting this up, but you might want to consider a ZFS mirror instead of the mdadm raid1.
Bill, The 'create' function's been running about 2 hours so far. Now that I've dug deep into mdadm (having to redo the array several times due to hdd failures) I'm comfortable using it.
It could be a little easier to manage.
Once I get it set up again and it's accepting input from my dirvish backups, rather than stuffing / to its gills, I don't expect to need to manage it unless one of the new WD Red NAS disks fails. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I had gotten away from deep dives into hardware and software over the past few years and I don't mind getting back to it and learning new things. Regards, Rich
