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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I guess my combined 12TB across five drives ranging in age from 13 to six years old will have to suffice. The only reason I’d need to buy a new drive is if a couple of my current drives die. Which does happen on occasion, of course.

Also, fuck AI, and the assholes who made it, and everyone who currently, personally profits off it. This bubble popping will be the catalyst to take down the entire world economy. MMW.

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realitista@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Yeah fortunately mine are all in RAID arrays, hopefully none die in the next year or I may have to run degraded.

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- deeferg@lemmy.ca ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  This feels like such a beginner question to be asking on Lemmy, let alone the tech community, but how does one go about setting up a RAID array to have my data mirrored? I only know the basics I remember about raid 1 and raid 0.
  
  Is this RAID array something you can do without one of those “multi-hard drive units”? I’d love and appreciate if anyone could point me in the right direction!
  
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  - WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    nowadays RAID is done with software, on linux if possible. common choices are ZFS and md-raid. you connect drives with SATA or SAS to a computer, and you can add them to a pool. drives added to pool will be formatted once.
    
    hardware raid is discouraged, because if the RAID card fails you need a replacement of the exact same kind, with same firmware version, and they can have other difficulties too that software RAID solutions don’t.
    
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    deeferg@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    That’s great, I’d love to not have to buy one of those machines, and I have been running my JF on a laptop just running Linux with a single one of the 16tb drives.
    
    If the drives added to the pool need to be formatted, is there a possibility that it wipes the data on it? I’ll take a bit of time to read up on some of the options you mentioned.
    
    Thanks for the help!
    
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I_Am_Lying@lemmy.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just in case: serverpartdeals.com Still the same sort of prices you expect, but decent warranties on re-certified enterprise HDDs.

Oddly, I’ve never had an HDD or SSD ever die on me. I’ve got old ass ones that aren’t even a GB that I’ve torn apart and thrown away. My oldest SSD just got removed and put in a cabinet because 256gb is just too small.

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