What does Jow Forums do with old harddrives? I upgraded my NAS and now have a few 4TB drives just gathering dust on my shelf
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What does Jow Forums do with old harddrives...
Ian Taylor
Asher Butler
4TB is still quite big. With a nice set of those you could have a second NAS to store even more weeb trash inside.
Zachary Campbell
backup
or backup of backup
Nathaniel Rivera
Howd you make a thread without a picture
Landon Adams
I have 12 3TB drives in service. I need more space but I'm not sure how I'm gonna proceed because of fucking ZFS and its goddamned immutable vdevs. I think I'm just gonna decide to trust Btrfs after the fixes that went into recent kernels. I'm probably gonna keep all those drives running (except for one I don't really trust) so I can have the extra room.
I have a few important things backed up on older, smaller drives.
Brody Roberts
How do you have your drives set up? I assume some RAID-Z shenanigans which I'd like to know more about since the most I use is mirror
Jackson Gonzalez
Nope, no RAIDZ, six mirror vdevs. a big part of that was because I didn't have all of them at once. I had to put some in the pool, copy over data from my existing 3TB drives, then add those drives to the pool. later on I needed to expand and just added two more vdevs.
supposedly in ZoL 0.8 we're getting the ability to remove mirror vdevs (though as far as I know there still won't be an equivalent to btrfs balance), so I'll have an easier off-ramp. A lot of ZFS people really like mirrors over parity raid for performance reasons, but I'd much rather sacrifice some speed to gain better space efficiency and the ability to withstand the death of two arbitrary drives, instead of having to hope that the other side of one particular mirror vdev is all okay in the event of a drive death.
granted all of my problems with ZFS could be solved by throwing money at it. but that'd require more money than I can bring to bear.
Josiah Hill
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Christian Diaz
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Kevin Reed
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