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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Three-way mirror?

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  • femtech@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just keep adding 2 more drives as it gets full. Not sure if that’s the best thing.

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  • TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would not trust these kind of dives in the mirror. IMHO RAID6 is the only way.

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Due to risk of failure or risk of data corruption because the mirror can’t tell which drive is right when there’s a difference?

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      • TheHolm@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        ZFS or BTRF mirror will know which side is at fault due to checksums. I’m more concern about simultaneous falures of two disks. Rebuilding of a RAID puts lots of pressure on remaining disks, so probability that remaining one dies too is much higher. with RAID6 3 disks need to die to lost date, which is less likely but not impossible.

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      • turmacar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The second one.

        Mirroring is good for speed and redundancy, but a storage mechanism with parity checks will all ways be more recoverable. And depending on the array you have far more storage available.

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    • peregus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      IMHO RAID6 is the only way.

      Or SnapRaid

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