Hello Sir,
Either Linear or Virtual is a viable option for your solution. This will become a personal preference and consideration for your future scalability plans. Virtual would be easier to add additional capacity and disk-groups but Linear also has the ability for growth.
If you are looking even further out, the MSA2050 uses only Virtual storage. So for future planning, if you start with Virtual storage you can move the drives containing Virtual storage from a MSA2040 to an MSA2050 and not have to recreate the Pools. Since the MSA2050 (and future MSA products) does not use Linear storage you could not move Linear storage directly from an MSA2040 to an MSA2050.
Cheers,
Shawn
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