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Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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When you make a RAID array, do you just get a bunch of HDDs and put them in an array case? Like, do you configure the array or do packages already have software for it? I'm working on a self hosting project now, but need to figure out storage and prefer just buying my own drives and using open source for the array management if possible.
Linux has software raid built in. You use mdadm to configure the array. It's a bit confusing but not a big deal. You might want to ask for help when you get to that point. Alternatively if you want hardware raid, you buy a raid controller and plug the drives into it. IDK about really attempting either of these with a raspberry pi instead of an x86 box. I'd use a box.