Multiple, Unequal Size Btrfs Drives?

I have one 8TB drive available for storage in my UrBackup installation setup with btrfs. I also have one or two 500GB drives available.

Would I gain any h/w failure protection if the 8TB dies while including a 500GB drive in the btrfs system (thinking of metadata)? Other that the 500GB storage, that is. Do most UrBackup admins build off of 2 or more drives?

Thank you…

Paul

Hi

You could try to put the main database file here, but it s not that big.
And i don t think you d get that much speed from it, so i guess the answer is no; because you d double your failure rate.

But maybe it still interesting to benchmark that setup.

Thank you Orogor!

System is fairly old as I am re-purposing a hand-me-down. Sort of. I imagine any benchmarks would have little meaning until I can upgrade hardware.

Thank you.