There is a thread quite similar to this but it did not provide a clear answer 
to the question which was worded a bit odd..

I have a Thumper and am trying to determine, for performance, which is the best 
ZFS configuration of the two shown below. Any issues other than performance 
that anyone may see to steer me in one direction or another would be helpful as 
well. Thanks.

ZFS Config 1:

zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
 scrub: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0


versus 

ZFS Config 2:

zpool status
  pool: rpool
 state: ONLINE
 scrub: none requested
config:

        NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool       ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz1    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t1d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t2d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t3d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c0t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c4t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c5t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c6t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0
            c7t4d0  ONLINE       0     0     0

In a nutshell, for performance reasons, is it better to have multiple raidz 
vdevs in the pool or just one raidz vdev. The number of disks used is the same 
in either case.

Thanks again.
 
 
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