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Re:A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff by efortis on Monday September 23, 2024 @06:32AM (#41624494)
My tip is adding hot spare disks so you don't have to replace broken ones.

For example, in ZFS you can mirror disks 1 and 2, while having 3 and 4 as hot spares with:

  zpool create pool mirror $d1 $d2 spare $d3 $d4
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Re:A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff by thelastparadise on Monday September 23, 2024 @07:55AM (#41625120)
How about make it so you can smash the whole rack with a sledgehammer or datacenter burn down and system hums along like nothing happened.
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Re:A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff by iphoneisbetter on Monday September 23, 2024 @09:03AM (#41625618)
No; because that costs at least an order of magnitude more money than a simple colo setup.
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