My anticlimactic ZFS SSD pool story

2021-02-20 — Written by Thomas

This post was suppose to be a “look I made an SSD ZFS pool”, but will instead be the first post in a trouble-shooting series. Trying to get my SSDs to behave.

But — I am getting ahead of myself… Let’s start at the beginning.

Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool

2021-01-12 (modified 2021-02-10) — Written by Thomas

#zfs #homelab #file-server

Replacing a disk and expanding the ZFS pool

I’m replacing a disk and and expanding my ZFS 2×RAID-Z2 pool.

File server storage migration and expansion

2020-01-11 (modified 2021-02-10) — Written by Thomas

#zfs #file-server

File server storage migration and expansion

My file server, Zeta, has an mdadm RAID6 array with eight 4 TB disks. I want to expand, but before doing so I’m going to migrate to ZFS.

Inter-Tech 4U-4416 server case

2019-11-17 (modified 2021-01-30) — Written by Thomas

#server-case #file-server

I was quite happy with the previous Inter-Tech case I got, so I decided to get another. This time I got a rack mountable storage case, with 16 hot swap bays, for my file server Zeta. More thoughts and photos!