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On 01/10/2021 17:08, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> This old machine is now about 10 years old. It's a big Cooler Master |
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> case, 6 or 8 removable drive bays, heavy. It collects dust and |
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> sometimes the fans are quite noisy. If I was going this direction |
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> I think I'd have to tear the whole thing down, redo the case fans at |
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> least. If I did all that then I think I'd use it for the new machine, |
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> but you do have a point. |
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Okay, get your new disk drive, stick it in your old server, put btrfs on |
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it, learn to play with the backups etc. You can hoover out the inside at |
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the same time, and possibly replace the fans - they might be noisy |
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because the bearings are shot. |
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There's no reason why your backup drive has to be in a different machine |
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(other than the physical safety of it being separate), so play with it |
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as part of your current machine. Learn btrfs, learn rsync, learn all |
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that stuff. |
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(Your case sounds a bit like the N300 I've just bought. I want to put a |
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whole load of 1TB drives in it as a raid testbed - you might have |
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noticed my name on the raid wiki :-) |
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The other thing, if you are interested and happy with just one disk not |
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raid, look at getting one of these HOST MANAGED shingled drives, and use |
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a log-structured file system. Again, I don't know anything about these |
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other than what they are, but for backups it should be a good and |
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reasonably cheap solution. |
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If you want to go down the pi route, I think you can get little cases, |
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and I've got a USB thingy into which you can plug two drives. But at |
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about £30-40 each, that's $100 for hardware over and above your drive. |
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I'd recycle the old machine :-) |
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Cheers, |
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