Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server

Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by throw0101a on Sunday May 29, 2022 @10:28AM (#31549392)

22TB of total capacity is interesting because we're now getting >26TB on single drives:

* https://www.techradar.com/news/larger-than-30tb-hard-drives-...

Crazy.

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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by copperfoil on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:21AM (#31549828)

Yes but there’s a price/reliability/performance trade off. Also, with disks that big failures become qualitatively different. For example, when a disk fails in a mirror, the bigger the disk size the higher the chance the 2nd disk will have unreadable blocks.

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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by kstenerud on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:46AM (#31550046)

This is what ZFS scrubbing is for. If a drive develops unreadable sectors, ZFS will alert you.

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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by giantrobot on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:19PM (#31550831)

If the drives are in a RAID ZFS will not only alert you but fix the corruption from parity on other disks.

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