35000 power-on hours. SMART still reports it as OK.
Time to figure out how to rebuild a RAID 5 array. The other two drives are probably nearly cooked too, but I have plenty of spares that I got for free.
35000 power-on hours. SMART still reports it as OK.
Time to figure out how to rebuild a RAID 5 array. The other two drives are probably nearly cooked too, but I have plenty of spares that I got for free.
Yeah, at the moment I am building a home server running TrueNAS, it is the only backup I will have, but it is far better than having everything on a single HDD in my computer…
I need the final two HDDs to set up my raid and start using the server.
I have a question about my raid though.
Is it better to run it with four data drives, one parity, and one hot spare, or should I run it with four data drives and two parity drives, and no hot spare?
I am running 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf Pro drives, from (hopefully) separate batches.
The CPU is an AMD Ryzen 4600G and I have 32GB ram in it.
I want to add another SATA controller and add two SSDs, one for L2 cache, and one for applications and VMs, as well as add a low profile GPU for transcoding and later a 10G NIC
This is something the people of [email protected] are better suited to answer.
In my personal opinion, for most home servers, the double redundancy of RAID 6 is more valuable than having a fully rebuilt array as soon as possible. If one member of a RAID 6 array fails, you’re still at an effective redundancy of a RAID 5. If one member of a RAID 5 array fails, you have zero redundancy until the hot spare is rebuilt.
If energy consumption is also a factor, it’s worth keeping in mind that a hot spare can be powered down by the controller until it is needed.
I’d personally go with RAID 6: 4 data + 2 distributed parity. That was the plan for my server too, but the motherboard only has four SATA ports and one had to be dedicated to the OS SSD.
Thanks, that makes sense, I picked the server motherboard specifically because it had six sata ports, they all can be used even with the first M.2 slot used.
I still want to add an L2 cache and an SSD storage pool for VMs and Apps. So I’ll need another controller card.
One annoying thing is that the server constantly waits at the boot screen untill all drives have spun up despite not having anything to boot from on them…