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Having 24 drives probably offers some performance advantages, but if you don‘t require them, having a 6-bay NAS with 18TB disks instead woukld offer a ton of advantages in terms of power usage, noise, space required, cost and reliability.


18TB drives didn’t exist back when this setup was designed.

Of course a 3 bay with 128TB drives would also be superior, but this comment only makes sense in a few years.


I agree, that’s what I would do today if I wanted the same amount of space, as I states in the article.


I'd want more redundancy in that case. With such large HDDs zfs resilver could kill another disk and then you would lose your data.




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