G'day all,
We don't see a lot of speed/time estimates float past so I thought I'd
put this out there for anyone contemplating this sort of thing.
I have a RAID 6 now comprised of 14 2TB drives (WD Green and Red).
The drives are connected via 3 LSI SAS2008 controllers and each on a
single channel. On a good day I can get 7-800Mb/s to or from the array,
so streaming performance is excellent.
It took approximately a day (+/-) to grow the array from 12 drives to
14. It has taken approximately 10 days to re-stripe from 128k chunks to
64k chunks with the backup file on a RAID-10 of SSD's (its not finished
but I'm about 8 hours away).
Both of these operations were performed with the array as idle as was
practical (all common users of the array were stopped). Based on the
grow performance I had banked on about a week for the restripe so I
wasn't massively far out in my estimation. If the array was under
regular use then the estimate for the restripe was more like a month.
I had to stop the SMART daemon as the morning run of SMART tests was
causing the estimate to blow out to a month while the tests were active,
and the normally 90 minute tests were taking 18 hours.
Still much nicer than a 24TB backup/recreate/restore.
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