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Ah gotcha. See if if your raid controller can be flashed/switched to IT mode(HP might call it something else) as then you won’t have to deal with the raid controller’s raid settings and doing anything weird. Then you can just rely on snapraid to manage the drives.

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TechyTochy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Okay after a some search looks like I have 3 options:

stick to my original plan but consider multiple points of failure (controller and Raid 0 on single disks)

The “IT” mode for HPE is called HBA but as far as I read it just creates a bunch of RAID 0 single drives (lol). I also need to update bios firmware because I don’t have this mode on my controller (huge pain in the ass)

Just switch from the Dynamic Smart Array RAID to legacy SATA AHCI and bypass hardware raid completely and switch off the controller. I need to reinstall ubuntu and headscale though :’(

I think i will go with the last one.
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- 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  If you go down that route then look at zfs which will allow you some redundancy (like raid) raidz1 can tolerate 1 drive dying and radz2 can tolerate 2, but obviously it is not 100% though I have never had a drive failure corrupt a zfs pool in like 10 years, and replacing a drive is easy. This question has, I’m afraid, many answers. zfs on a 3 drive system would run nicely though, and zfs is supported by Ubuntu. But of course we are talking different ways to do things, and this is part of the fun of self hosting!
  
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  - 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    oh and then there is truenas which will do all that you want and allows installation of things like plex and/or jellyfin automagically
    
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