Storage pool width

[furryx9]

I see in the FAQ that an expanded pool should not exceed 12 drives. Is that a limitation of the filesystem used (I assume ZFS) ?

I was planning on getting something like a 45drives Storinator that contains more than 12 drive slots. Will I be forced to create multiple pools?

[jonp]

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.