Have many disks are supported?

[kolin]

Have a question have many disks are supported per licence? For example if I have 12 hdd drives does licence allow to work with all of them?

[arvinpw]

For initial setup, the max number is 8 drives. But once you deployed, you can expand to max 12 drives down the road.

[kolin]

Thanks for the answer 

44 minutes ago, arvinpw said:

For initial setup, the max number is 8 drives. But once you deployed, you can expand to max 12 drives down the road.

 

[Grimaldius]

6 hours ago, arvinpw said:

For initial setup, the max number is 8 drives. But once you deployed, you can expand to max 12 drives down the road.

 Where did you find that info ? Is that a hard limit ?

All I found is this in their FAQ :

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-Initial pool width should not exceed 8 devices.
-Maximum expanded pool width should not exceed 12 devices.

It seems to only be a recommendation for pool size, not a licence limitation. And if you have more than 12 drives you should be able to just create another pool.

Edited December 1, 2024 by Grimaldius

[arvinpw]

50 minutes ago, Grimaldius said:

 Where did you find that info ? Is that a hard limit ?

It seems to only be a recommendation for pool size, not a licence limitation. And if you have more than 12 drives you should be able to just create another pool.

you are right, it is recommendation, but as HexOS target market is average user, not tech-savvy like the rest of us here, it's a good idea to have some kind of limitation

this is the admin's reply from another topic

On 11/30/2024 at 7:13 AM, jonp said:

The recommendation limits are currently hard enforced, but will be soft enforced in the future.  ZFS will allow you to do whatever you want, but we're guiding users to a best practices setup.  The issue is that the wider a given pool, the higher likelihood for multi-device failure before the pool is repaired, leading to complete data loss.