Hey guys,
I was looking for a storage solution and kept gravitating towards Synology's SHR mode or Drobo's BeyondRAID for the ability to swap disks out of the storage pool one at a time to increase storage.
From what I can tell, ZFS supports this with RAIDZ, though it looks like there is more work I have to do on my end to integrate a new drive into the pool via the terminal vs an automated turnkey solution.
I was really wanting an expandable pool of direct attach storage via TB3 without getting locked into my initial drive configuration like traditional RAID. Drobo seems to offer that; but they haven't shipped a product in 7 months and I see nothing but reports of hardware failures and support nightmares. Synology offers SHR, but only offer 10Gbe on their highest end enclosures (usually with add-on cards), and I'd have to add a 10Gbe to TB3 adapter to my system which just inflates the cost even more.
If I bought a Promise Pegasus32, would ZFS allow me to have a single-point-of-failure proof storage pool that can expand in the future as I replace drives with larger drives? Is this a good or proper use-case?
Thanks,
Dan