I thought I read somewhere that larger drives had a higher chance of failure. Quick look around and that seems to be untrue relative to newer drives.
The two models, [...] each offer a minimum of 3TB per disk
Huh? The hell is this supposed to mean? Are they talking about the internal platters?
Just one would be a great backup, but I’m not ready to run a server with 30TB drives.
I'm here for it. The 8 disc server is normally a great form factor for size, data density and redundancy with raid6/raidz2.
This would net around 180TB in that form factor. Thats would go a long way for a long while.
I dunno if you would want to run raidz2 with disks this large. The resilver times would be absolutely bazonkers, I think. I have 24 TB drives in my server and run mirrored vdevs because the chances of one of those drives failing during a raidz2 resilver is just too high. I can't imagine what it'd be like with 30 TB disks.
Yeah I agree. I just got 20tb in mine. Decided to just z2, which in my case should be fine. But was contemplating the same thing. Going to have to start doing z2 with 3 drives in each vdev lol.
Is RAID2 ever the right choice? Honestly, I don't touch anything outside of 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10.
Edit: missed the z, my bad. I don't use ZFS and just skipped over it.
raidz2 is analogous to RAID 6. It's just the ZFS term for double parity redundancy.
Yeah, I noticed the "z" in there shortly after posting. I don't use ZFS much, so I kinda skimmed over it.
How can someone without programming skills make a cloud server at home for cheap?
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(Like connected to WiFi and that’s it)
Yes. You'll have to learn some new things regardless, but you don't need to know how to program.
What are you hoping to make happen?
Cheapest is probably a Raspberry Pi with a USB external drive. Look up "Raspberry Pi NAS," there are a bunch of guides.
Or you can repurpose an old PC, install some NAS distro, and then configure.
There are a ton of options, very few of which require any programming.
Debian, virtualmin, podman with cockpit, install these on any cheap used pc you find, after initial setup all other is gui managed
Raspberry Pi or an old office PC are the usual methods. It's not so much programming as Linux sysadmin skills.
Beyond that, you might consider OwnCloud for an app-like experience, or just Samba if all you want is local network files.
I run docker services and host virtual machines from Unraid OS
Here i am still rocking 6TB.
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