It is a possibility, but LTO-8 drives are still £3,000+ for just the
drive. The drive would also then be the weakest link, and quite an
expensive one.
With 10Tb NAS drives coming in at £300 each, that's £1,200 for four
drives with 30Tb capacity at RaidZ. An extra as spare, or two extras
for
I have only read this thread very superficially, but LTO tape (linear tape open)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open
LTO-8 has native raw capacity of about 12TB so attaching a LTO-8 drive may be
an option.
The same page says, by the way, that LTO-9 is supposed to have 18TB native
Michelle writes:
> This remains one question ... can drives and partitions be mixed in a
> ZFS pool?
Sure, but I wouldn't do it. Just put identically-sized slices (say,
2 TB or maybe 1 TB) on all of your disks, as many as will fit on each
physical disk.
Next, create mirrored pairs from two
