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    2nd zpool or add VDEV to existing zpool?

    Some good suggestions, all of which I'm mulling over to see if they fit within or modify my resources and plans. I do have an LTO-5 drive and tapes, but that sounds rather tedious since it's a bare drive and not an autoloader/robot, so that's a lot of tape swapping :eek: Although really I...
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    2nd zpool or add VDEV to existing zpool?

    Ah yes, thanks for the reminder. I'd probably want to rewrite all the data, copy it all to a temp file/directory (e.g. file.new), delete the original, then mv it back. Painful but doable.
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    2nd zpool or add VDEV to existing zpool?

    Hi, I'd like to ask for some advice, as I'm mulling amongst 2 different options. I have a 7-disk raidz2 pool, using 8TB 7200RPM HDD that is at 97% capacity (I know I know, should keep below 80% for performance, but it's mostly video, so don't really need a lot of raw performance, price:capacity...
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