Greetings! As you required, I have found to you several necessary documents and attached them to this email. If you will want to find additional information, you know, who can provide it. On 2020-12-01 12:34, Linux RAID Mailing List wrote: > On 01/12/20 09:57, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Sorry for the OT and > X-POST but these 2 lists are full of skilled > storage engineer. > For a > very,very,very,very long time I used 15k SAS 3.5'' disks. A > RAID-6 > hardware (8 disks) took about 20 hours to rebuild. > > Now I've replaced a > 3.5 disks with a 15k SAS 2.5'' disk. raid is > rebuilding properly, but the > ETA is less then 1 hours. > > I've moved from a 20 hours rebuild to about > 50 minutes rebuild, by > just changing one 3.5' disks with a 2.5' > > Is > this normal ? I'm thinking something strange is happening > Your rebuild > time is effectively the time it takes to write to the new disk. So I'm > guessing if you had to wipe and rebuild one of the old disks it would again > be 20 hours. So what's different about the new disk? Yes I know it's a > 2.5". But could it be it's SATA-3 as opposed to the old ones being SATA-2? > There's a whole bunch of things it could be. But my money's on it having a > bigger cache. The ETA is based on how fast it can read from the existing > array and the rebuild hasn't yet filled the cache. Once that fills up and > the disk write speed kicks in, the ETA will start climbing fast as the > write speed starts dominating the ETA. That said, it'll probably be faster > than the old 20hrs, but I don't know by how much. Cheers, Wol > ------------------------------------------ zfsonlinux: Discuss Permalink: > https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss/T0168d10d08f31ca4-M1e0c7cc3b7c276450f1bdf1a > Delivery options: > https://zfsonlinux.topicbox.com/groups/zfs-discuss/subscription