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Can anyone confirm my action plan is the proper way to do this? The reason I''m doing this is I want to create 2xraidz2 pools instead of expanding my current 2xraidz1 pool. So I''ll create a 1xraidz2 vdev, migrate my current 2xraidz1 pool over, destroy that pool and then add it as a 1xraidz2 vdev to the new pool. I''m running b130, sharing both with CIFS and ISCSI (not comstar), multiple decedent f...

...then i would end up with 2 X 7 drive RaidZ arrays. To keep the pool size at 12TB i would have to give up my extra parity drive going to this 2 array setup and it is concerning as i have no room for hot spares in this system. So in my mind i am left with only one other choice and this is going to 2XRaidZ2 pools and loosing an additional 2 TB so i am left with a 10TB ZFS pool. So my big question is given that i am working with 4mb - 50gb files is going with 14 spindles going incur a huge performance hit? I was hoping to be able to saturate a single GigE link with this setup, but i am concerned the s...