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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Bob Sanders <rsanders@×××.com> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> The list is quiet. Please excuse me waking it up. (Or trying to...) ;-) |
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>> I'm at the point where I'm a few months from running out of disk |
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>> space on my RAID6 so I'm considering how to move forward. I thought |
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>> I'd check in here and get any ideas folks have. Thanks in advance. |
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> Beware - if Adobe acroread is used, and you opt for a 3TB home |
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> directory, there is a chance it will not work. Or more specifically, |
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> acroread is still 32-bit. It's only something I've seen with the xfs |
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> filesystem. And Adobe has ignored it for approx. 3yrs now. |
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acroread isn't critical to me but it does get used now and then so |
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thanks for the heads-up. |
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<SNIP> |
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> RAID 1 is fine, RAID 10 is better, but comsumes 4 drives and SATA ports. |
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Humm...I suppose I might consider building a 4-drive 1TB RAID10 from |
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my existing 500GB RE3 drives, and then buy a couple of 2TB Red drives |
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and do a RAID1 for data storage. If I did that I'd end up with 6 |
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drives in the box, 4 of them old, but old ain't necessarily bad. ;-) |
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However that forces me to manage what data goes where instead of just |
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a big, flat RAID1 which is going to be easy to live with. Still, it |
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would probably save some money. |
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<SNIP> |
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> If you change, do not use ZFS and possibly BTRFS if the system does not |
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> have ECC DRAM. A single, unnoticed, ECC error can corrupt the data pool |
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> and be written to the file system, which effectively renders it corrupt |
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> without a way to recover. |
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Thanks. No ECC and no real interest in doing anything very exotic. |
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> FWIW - a Synology DS414slim can hold 4 x 1TB WD Red NAS 2.5" drives and |
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> provide a boot of nfs or iSCSI to your VMs. The downside is the NAS box |
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> and drives would go for a bit north of $636. The upside is all your |
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> movies and VM files could move off your workstation and the workstation |
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> would still host the VMs via a mount of the NAS box. |
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NAS is an interesting idea. I'll do a little study but my initial |
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feeling is that it's more money than I really want to spend. Summer's |
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coming. Time for Margaritas! |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |