Hopfgeist
@Hopfgeist@feddit.de
Safety Engineer, Dad, Husband, Pilot, Musician. Not necessarily in that order.
Ingenieur für funktionale Sicherheit, Vater, Ehemann, Pilot, Musiker. Nicht notwendigerweise in dieser Reihenfolge.
- Comment on which dynamic dns hoster? 4 months ago:
I also use this, and it works great. Another downside is that when using the free service, others can just use subdomains of your registered domains. You can always deny it, but you have to do it manually. With the premium subscriptions you can prevent that automatically for a number of domains, depending on how much you pay.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
To add, unlike “traditional” RAID, ZFS is also a volume manager and can have an arbitrary number of dynamic “partitions” sharing the same storage pool (literally called a “pool” in zfs). It also uses checksumming to determine if data has been corrupted. On redundant setups it will then quietly repair the corrupted parts with the redundant information while reading.
- Comment on Can I use two different drives? 7 months ago:
ebay is very international, and is also by far the greatest site for second-hand stuff in most European countries. I normally buy my used drives there.
- Comment on Can I use two different drives? 7 months ago:
mixing drive models is certainly not going to do any harm
It may, performance-wise, but usually not enough to matter for a small self-hosting servers.
- Comment on Different "geometries" for same disk model? 7 months ago:
Sure, SCSI disks will show their defective list (“primary defects”, as delivered by the factory, and grown defects, accumulated during use), and they all have a couple hundred primary defects. But I don’t see why that would affect the reported geometry, given that it is fictional, anway. And all disks have enough spare tracks to accommodate for the defects, and offer the specified full number of total sectors, even for long list of grown defects. Incidentally, all the 4TB disks are still “perfect” in that they have no grown defects.
- Comment on Different "geometries" for same disk model? 7 months ago:
I’m not touching that post again. But a small rant about typesetting in lemmy: It seems there is no way whatsoever to put angle brackets in a “code” section. In an overzealous amount to prevent HTML injection, everything in angle brackets is just removed when posting (although it remains there in preview). In normal text, you can use “<”, but not inside “code” segments, where it will be retained verbatim.
- Submitted 7 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Is this a bad option for a home server? 7 months ago:
If you’re as paranoid as me about data integrity, SAS drives on a host adapter card in “Initiator Target” (IT) mode with write-cache on the disks disabled is the safest. It will degrade performance when writing many small files concurrently, but not as badly as with SATA drives. With a good error-correcting redundant system such as ZFS you can probably get away with enabled write cache in most cases. Until you can’t.
- Comment on Is this a bad option for a home server? 7 months ago:
RAID is generally a good thing but don’t get complacent, follow the 3-2-1 method
To expand on that: Redundant drive setup and backups serve completely different purposes. The only overlap is in case of a single disk failure, where RAID (or similar) may save the data.
Redundancy is all about reducing downtime in case of single hardware failures. Backups not only protect you from data loss in case of multiple simultaneous failures, but also from accidental deletion. Failures that require restoration of data almost always involve downtime. In short: You always need backups (unless it’s strictly a local cache, and easily recreatable), but if you want high availability, redundancy may help.
3-2-1-rule for backups, in case you’re unfamiliar: 3 copies of important data, on 2 different media, with 1 off-site.
- Comment on Dell T420 mainboard in T320? Differences? Heatsink? Air Baffle? 8 months ago:
Thanks.
- Comment on Dell T420 mainboard in T320? Differences? Heatsink? Air Baffle? 8 months ago:
Clearly you neither read my post nor looked into what the air baffle in the T320 actually looks like. So whats your point?
- Comment on Dell T420 mainboard in T320? Differences? Heatsink? Air Baffle? 8 months ago:
It’s much more than a fan shroud. It’s a baffle specifically designed to guide cooling air over the CPU heatsinks and the RAM modules. This kind of airflow design is very common in servers. I wouldn’t trust it without, especially since the CPU heatsinks have no dedicated fans, but rely on the aerodynamic functioning of the baffle.
And yes, I know they are very similar, in fact I am quite (but not absolutely) certain that they are identical except for the actual second CPU socket. It’s almost as if you didn’t read my post. Even the soldering points for the second CPU socket are there in the single-CPU T320. They certainly won’t have different PSU connectors. They even share part numbers for the case.
- Comment on Dell T420 mainboard in T320? Differences? Heatsink? Air Baffle? 8 months ago:
I’d have to check the baffle shape again. But thanks for the insight.
- Submitted 8 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Is my ZFS partition properly setup? 9 months ago:
I don’t think there’s anything intrinsically wrong, but far as I can see you are using only a single disk for the zfs pool, which will give you integrity checks (know when something is corrupted), but no way to fix it.
Since this is, by today’s standards, a tiny disk at 100G, I assume this is just a test setup?