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   skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:22:43 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

   • Rusty Crab
   • JollyWizard
   @RustyCrab @JollyWizard okay that's not too bad
   for production storage, i'd go for like a 12x LFF 2U server and populate it to start with 6x4TB or 6TB drives in RAID6, ideally with a hot spare too
   then pick up a 4x LFF 1U pizza box server, fill it with 4x6TB drives and slap them in RAID5 or ZFS. replicate to that one regularly and automatically.
   next, pick up two big fat retard drives and take periodic manual backups to them. don't bother with external drives unless there's significant cost savings, regular old SATA drives you can pop into a hotswap bay are perfect. one goes in your gun safe, one goes in your safe deposit box at the bank or at your mom's house (where i was last night)
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:22:42 JST sapphire

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     • Rusty Crab
     • JollyWizard
     @skylar @RustyCrab @JollyWizard HW RAID is dead old man, ZFS
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:28:31 JST sapphire

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     • Rusty Crab
     • JollyWizard
     @skylar @RustyCrab @JollyWizard modern RAID controllers can’t solve for the RAID5 hole
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:28:31 JST Phantasm

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     • Rusty Crab
     • sapphire
     • JollyWizard
     @sapphire @RustyCrab @skylar @JollyWizard They can with proper hardware. The better ones have a battery for the write cache and attempt to dumb it on power loss.
     
     The much bigger issue is that they don't do parity checking on reads which without frequent enough scrubs turns into silent bitrot. They will happily give you wrong data.
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 16:28:32 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     • Rusty Crab
     • sapphire
     • JollyWizard
     @sapphire @RustyCrab @JollyWizard i do like how easy it was to migrate to a larger drive size
     but modern RAID controllers can do that too
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 17:06:42 JST sapphire

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     • Rusty Crab
     • Phantasm
     • JollyWizard
     @phnt @RustyCrab @skylar @JollyWizard in general if you have the choice and you want to keep your data, ZFS is the modern solution
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