Finally…FINALLY had time to start moving everything over from my old Mac Mini-based NAS to my “new” NAS.

For reference: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61180593

So far so good! Ultimately, I decided to start with a fresh install of the most recent OMV release (v8.5), and migrated my existing mdadm-managed RAID5 array to that. OMV picked it up immediately, which made that part very easy.

The tricky part I’m dealing with now is remapping the various shares to my Proxmox cluster and VMs. Because I started fresh, I changed things up a little bit and created a second “disk” for each of my four Proxmox-hosted Docker VMs. Those disks are hosted inside Proxmox’s own NFS mount from the NAS. Each secondary disk will hold user data for their respective Docker containers (not the docker container itself).

Maybe there’s a better way to map the storage, but honestly I’ve learned an absolute shitton about how to properly set up Linux permissions and service users through this whole process. Plus, if the Mac mini was shut off from a power interruption or whatever, I would still have to manually power-on each disk in its USB-connected enclosure.

Unfortunately, during this migration process, one of my 4TB Reds refused to play nice, and checking the SMART stats showed multiple failing sectors. It has 69k (nice) hours, same as its twin. I had anticipated this a while ago since I bought my first pair of Reds back in 2018, and had configured the array a year or so ago with a hot spare (newish 4TB Black I wasn’t using). By the time I found the dying Red, the system had already automatically removed it from the array, pulled in the spare, and rebuilt the array using that spare. Fucking awesome. Both legitimately and sarcastically…

Obligatory pics!

Fully assembled:
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OS install:
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And its original config from 2004: Image

Full specs:

Part Name
Case HP ProLiant ML110 Gen 2
Motherboard Asus PRIME Q270M-C mATX
CPU Intel Pentium G4560T
Memory Samsung 1x8GB DDR4-2400
Power Supply Rosewill Capstone 650W
CPU Cooler Thermalright Assassin X SE
Case Fan Noctua A12x25 120mm
Operating System OpenMediaVault v8.5
OS Drive Toshiba 128GB M.2 NVME SSD
Storage Management LSI HBA 9211-8i - IT Mode
Storage Management Rosewill 4 x 3.5" HDD Hot-Swap Cage (+fan)
RAID5 Storage WD Red CMR 4TB 3.5" HDD
RAID5 Storage WD Red CMR 4TB 3.5" HDD
RAID5 Storage WD Red CMR 4TB 3.5" HDD
RAID5 Storage WD Black 4TB 3.5" HDD (Hot spare - it’s CMR, too!)
RAID5 1:1 Backup WD Red Plus CMR 8TB 3.5" HDD
Camera Storage WD Purple 1TB 3.5" HDD