I had asked earlier about upgrading my NAS about a month ago and recently bought a used Poweredge 2950 with 8GB of ECC memory and 4x 2TB WD Reds for a Raid-Z2 array. I am about to setup my initial configuration and was wondering if enabling compression and encryption on my volumes would be worth it in the long run. I would assume that compression would take a fair hit to read/write speeds and I would only save a few gigs by enabling it but I just wanted to make sure before I transfer 2TB of...
Compression and Hardware vs Software RAID
Compression and Hardware vs Software RAID