• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    I plan on having a raid of 5 drives and a hot spare, with a cold spare next to the NAS.

    I am considering 8/10 TB drives, I currently have less than 10 TB of data in my archive.

    What are the advantages of the different raid z leves?

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      4 hours ago

      Disks that can fail. I can lose 2 and be okay. That gives me time to swap in my spare or order a new one. For a home user imo 2 drive redundancy is plenty but 3 for a 6 drive mirror was too much. These things aren’t cheap!

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        2 hours ago

        These things aren’t cheap!

        I am learning this now, especially since I will buy several of them.

        This will be my most expensive computer I own by far…

        But I am trying to buy reliable parts to last me 10+ years and possibly beyond…