That was quite a destructive little storm that just rolled through.
I spent a couple of hours pulling apart multiple old desktop and HTPC I had laying around to make a Frankenserver. It's currently got 6 x SATA hard disks and 2 x SSD disks hanging off a HBA with breakout cables, then another SSD and an optical drive (for ripping CDs) via standard SATA on the motherboard. The PSU used to run a Radeon HD-somethinarather GPU of some sort so figure it should have plenty of headroom to spin a few more drives.
About to install unraid and turn it in to a file server. I'll have to donate 1 x 10TB HDD as a parity disk, but that'll still leave 10+4+4+4+4 (26TB) as storage, and 512+480+256GB (~1.2TB) as cache.
Going to take it to work and use it to backup the important stuff on my home server (which has ~120TB but most of that isn't what you'd call important).
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coaxil @lemmy.zip - 2mon
What are you going with to handle backups from the home box to to this unit?
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𝚝𝚛𝚔 - 2mon
I made a thread about it cause originally I was thinking Syncthing might do it, but rclone as suggested by some others looks like a better idea.
Also I am sure these WD Red still have plenty of life left in them right?
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coaxil @lemmy.zip - 2mon
Haha, that's some good uptime on those drives!
I have faffed with and had good experience with BorgBackup in the past, but not used a lot of these tools for sometime now, so unsure where it's all at.
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𝚝𝚛𝚔 - 2mon
The 24 disks in my JBOD are all similar hours, though they are enterprise SAS drives rather than consumer SATA... Upside - more speed, more reliability! Downside - no spin down, so noisy, so much power consumption.
The WD Reds were installed in LVM. Not sure if they auto balance in any way, or if it just cascades from one drive to the next or not. Pretty sure they carried our personal backup (photos etc) so probably didnt actually read or write all that much data. I'm sure it'll be fine for off site backup. Maybe I need to dedicate the 2 x 10TB drives for parity and then just replace the other 4 disks with up to 10TB each as they fail..... OR.... buy a new >10TB disk now and use that for parity.... Decisions, decisions.
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Daily Discussion Thread - Sat Oct 18 2025
That was quite a destructive little storm that just rolled through.
I spent a couple of hours pulling apart multiple old desktop and HTPC I had laying around to make a Frankenserver. It's currently got 6 x SATA hard disks and 2 x SSD disks hanging off a HBA with breakout cables, then another SSD and an optical drive (for ripping CDs) via standard SATA on the motherboard. The PSU used to run a Radeon HD-somethinarather GPU of some sort so figure it should have plenty of headroom to spin a few more drives.
About to install unraid and turn it in to a file server. I'll have to donate 1 x 10TB HDD as a parity disk, but that'll still leave 10+4+4+4+4 (26TB) as storage, and 512+480+256GB (~1.2TB) as cache.
Going to take it to work and use it to backup the important stuff on my home server (which has ~120TB but most of that isn't what you'd call important).
What are you going with to handle backups from the home box to to this unit?
I made a thread about it cause originally I was thinking Syncthing might do it, but rclone as suggested by some others looks like a better idea.
Also I am sure these WD Red still have plenty of life left in them right?
Haha, that's some good uptime on those drives! I have faffed with and had good experience with BorgBackup in the past, but not used a lot of these tools for sometime now, so unsure where it's all at.
The 24 disks in my JBOD are all similar hours, though they are enterprise SAS drives rather than consumer SATA... Upside - more speed, more reliability! Downside - no spin down, so noisy, so much power consumption.
The WD Reds were installed in LVM. Not sure if they auto balance in any way, or if it just cascades from one drive to the next or not. Pretty sure they carried our personal backup (photos etc) so probably didnt actually read or write all that much data. I'm sure it'll be fine for off site backup. Maybe I need to dedicate the 2 x 10TB drives for parity and then just replace the other 4 disks with up to 10TB each as they fail..... OR.... buy a new >10TB disk now and use that for parity.... Decisions, decisions.