this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
12 points (92.9% liked)

Sysadmin

7640 readers
1 users here now

A community dedicated to the profession of IT Systems Administration

No generic Lemmy issue posts please! Posts about Lemmy belong in one of these communities:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
12
Asking advice for home storage configuration (l.antiope.link)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hi all. I’m trying to choose a configuration for my home storage. Speed is not a priority, I want a balance of stability and performance. I was thinking of making a raid 6 array with an ext4 file system for 4 disks of 2 TB each. Asking for advice, will this configuration be optimal?

Note - I am going to make a raid array based on external usb drives, which I will plug into the orange pi

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've used lvm with snapshotting with great success. Raid is great, just remember it is only one measure for data retention. Another optional addition would be add a hot spare.