minus-squareconrad82@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Help choosing a good HDD for my home server?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoOne note, I used a raid with WD 8 TB drives, and when a drive failed we bought a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8 TB to replace it. The NAS wouldn’t accept it into the raid, because it had fewer bytes! We found a workaround by tweaking partition sizes for that particular raid, but it caught me by surprise. this was mdadm, not sure if zfs has some awareness to slightly differences in sizes between hdd models linkfedilink
One note,
I used a raid with WD 8 TB drives, and when a drive failed we bought a Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8 TB to replace it.
The NAS wouldn’t accept it into the raid, because it had fewer bytes!
We found a workaround by tweaking partition sizes for that particular raid, but it caught me by surprise.
this was mdadm, not sure if zfs has some awareness to slightly differences in sizes between hdd models