Read speeds double, so itâs viable to get high quality HDDs instead of spending the premium in SSDs
Thatâs what I did and IMO itâs worth it. I got one main RAID 10 and will be setting up another while migrating. IRONWOLF now has extended use NAS drives at 16TB for like $300 cuck bucks
Sometimes I read things and wish I understood what the hell is going on? Are you guys talking about a mining rig or something ?
General storage for computing.
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Dead on man , thanks for that , I'll have a little read up about it . Always learning on Nostr man , it's brilliant .
Haha RAID is a way to take multiple hard drives and use them as a single drive. There are different setups with different benefits.
Iâm using RAID 10, so when I put two 8TB drives into the setup, I only get 8TB of storage - the same is mirrored in each. However, when I am downloading/reading from the drives, it will pull half from one drive, and half from the other as needed, so itâs twice as fast. Then also if a hard drives ever dies on me, Iâve lost no data because itâs mirrored on both. I just take out the dead drive, put in a new one, and itâs like nothing happened.
There are other setups that go the opposite way. RAID 5 splits the difference so itâs across 3 drives and you keep 2/3rds of the data and get better read and write speeds. But you can only lose 1 drive and recovery is a little slower and kore frustrating.
Then thereâs RAID 0 which just uses two drives at the same time and puts half the data on each drive. Doubles read and write speed. But it means if you lose *either* drive, you lose all the data.
UTXO is talking about using a mirrored option. You need twice the drives j write speed isnât any better, but you get reliability & good read speeds in exchange.
Wow , thank you for the comprehensive explanation, I wasn't aware that such a thing existed ! That is pretty cool. So you can speed up your read / write times and have a fail safe . Cool .
And I also had to replace one old 8TB drive that I had leaned on for a bit with a new IRONWOLF drive and it was super easy. So thereâs that.
This is the way.
I just had 3 of my 4 spinning rust array die in a move. I no longer recommend hdd for anything but archival.
Rip
Ya, only 3 years old WD reds too. I was livid
Damn, the one I had to replace was a WD also. But it was about as âconsumer gradeâ as it gets. Not a Red.
Did you use movers? Did the box get launched out of a truck or something? đđŹ
Only a 20 mile uhaul trip! My own fault since I know the proper way wouldâve been to remove & store properly in shockproof casing, but still, I thought itâd be fine.
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Backups! Backups! Backups!
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/data_backup_options.pdf
Ouch. That hurts. Weâve been moving to ZFS raid + encrypted s3 backup. I get chills thinking about something like that happening.
It was raidz1, so I couldnât be fancy with multiple disk tolerance đ
Im considering moving the new array to raidz3, but I want to add mixed models first.
I took down my backblaze backup down years ago & am living life on the edge with a single copy on a WD Pro I had bought just a few weeks before. Bricks were shat during discovery đ
