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Re:Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just p... by Feritiuuu on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:59AM (#31411698)
After 4tb dlof data I started to get weirded out by running too big disks.

Resilvering might take ages. So long that raid2 might be mandatory.

I haven't calculated the right risk factor but I still only use 4tb disks

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Re:Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just p... by iforgotpassword on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:20AM (#31412035)
Eh I recently switched to two 14tb disks of different manufacturers. One is usually in standby and once a week I do a rsync to it. Btrfs on both for checksums.

Good enough for me, I assume it's way more likely that a PSU failure fries them all, in which case no variant of raid would have helped anyways. For important stuff I have an off-site Backup, but that's only around 800gb anyways and growing a few gb per year.

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Re:Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just p... by katbyte on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:57AM (#31412565)
A rebuild of a 160tb raid 6 array of 12 18tb disks for me takes around 3.3 days.
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