I have a series of 2 & 3TB HDDs that I want to set up in a raid enviroment on a home server to store media.
What is the commonly accepted way to do this in 2016?
You go refurbish some dumped corporate servers with hotswap bays.
Just don't buy a retarded 500$ nas, they aint worth it. If you gotta spend money build a cheap intel miniatx pc.
>>54778326
That's what I did I have all my parts picked out for the server I want to build.
What I meant was what type of raid& filesystem should I use, I was looking at btrfs and zfs, but don't really know what to pick
>>54778272
Run zfs on an old/cheap PC. Use that to set up a RAID 6 array.
Even an AMD Sempron should be enough computing power.
>>54778326
also I decided to build rather than buy because servers like this are all I can find in my area
Zfs is good. It depends if you want a linux or a windows environment. If you can't stand linux Windows Server 2012 r2 offers ReFS, which basically is NTFS with zfs features.
I guess raid 5 or 6, depends on how many drives you got /desu /senpai.
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>>54778442
Just run a RAID 6 array in zfs, RAID 5 sucks if a drive fails while rebuilding the array. This happens more than you might think and it's whole reason RAID 6 was made.
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>>54778485
Exactly what I was thinking of doing, thank you lads for the help
>>54778503
Have fun with your new porn storage array, anon.
