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  1. Pequeño adelanto del nuevo servidor que estoy configurando que va a correr únicamente Mastodon Uruguay, gemelo al actual. Todo indica que vamos a contar con un RAID-6 con 10x1TB HDD SATA3 #undernet #mejoras #mantenimiento #mastodon #servidor #autogestion #raid #raid6

  2. question for tech-y storage people: I just nabbed 4 extra (used) disks with a 6 TB capacity from a place that re-sells electronics (oregonrecycles.com); I think they did some testing but obviously I dunno what to extent, and also, if it was just limited to stuff like SMART data, well...

    anyway, I wanna RAID it, which is fine, but I don't know how much lifetime these have left on them. For four disks with unknown usage, should I use RAID6 or RAID10? It's not
    job critical data I'll be storing on these (mostly media and such). They'll eventually be migrated into a larger RAID array but that won't happen until I'm stable and can afford to rebuild my server so this is fine for now.

    I wouldn't
    mind the better read/write performance that comes with RAID10 even though it has less parity. I suspect these disks were all used together so they might have similar wear/tear patterns; in that case, I'm wondering if RAID6's double parity actually buys me any extra life? Like, given 4 disks with the same history and a probably known disk failure rate, I'm not really clear as to whether double parity is going to make much of a difference (and that if one goes down, the others probably aren't too far behind).

    #techPosting #raid #raid6 #raid10 #storage #nas

  3. I am looking for a tutorial/advice/best-practice on how to setup a server with multiple disks on . Machine for now should just be used as a fileserver until we integrate the into . Still I am unsure how to format the disks. Looking at previous setups we used for the root partition and for all additional disks. I am just not sure how or where should come into play...

  4. So another update from me, because sometimes things go slow. I've booted a live image and the program is running a check of my four 4TB drives (been running for 86 hrs and done 84% I think the last time I checked).

    I did change my decision to use & . After deliberate consideration I've switched my choice to with .
    — no longer NILFS2 because it doesn't have compression and ZFS even includes the kitchen sink
    - 1/2

  5. So after more reading tonight for my *BACKUP* server (that will be its main purpose) I have decided to:
    — create a 4 disk array with
    — have it use as its file system (with continual and manual )
    — use @nixos_org as OS

    I understand it have a performance hit, from both these decisions, but this will be the biggest part in my backup strategy.
    TBD:
    — filesystem for OS on SSD :thaenkin: