Comment on Upgrading storage to usb drives
asbestos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Get a used UPS and replace the battery (with a non genuine one) and use ZFS and you should be good
Comment on Upgrading storage to usb drives
asbestos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Get a used UPS and replace the battery (with a non genuine one) and use ZFS and you should be good
kumi@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
I suspect this machine might be memory constrained and if so zfs might push it to its limits if it’s already close.
If it has <8G and doesn’t already have decent headroom I’d think twice about ZFS depending on how its gong to be used
FierroG@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Didn’t know about this, it is at 8 GB of ddr3, couldn’t find a bigger stick and it doesn’t have more than one slot. I’m updating the post to address other responses. Thanks
kumi@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
If you consider ZFS and don’t mind having the machine offline for a day or two you could fill it up with real (backups!) or representative fake data and run some tests/benchmarks before you fully commit. It depends a lot on how the data is structured and what you’re running on it and it’s possible it will run fine.