Zero filled the new drive, then rebuilt array as RAIDZ1 with three 2TB drives on an old Xeon server. Interestingly, each disk utilisation % dropped from around 100% when two of them were configured as a mirror vdev, to around 55% to 65% with three as a RAIDZ1 vdev. The throughput of the array is now limited by the available network bandwidth, which is now running maxed out (or as close as I can get it) on the single 1G link.
Statistics: Posted by andrum99 — Thu Jun 05, 2025 12:02 am