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> I made the mistake of building a NAS for one at one point but it turns out that you need to be really diligent about documenting the setup as rebuilding a rai
by jjav 5y ago
> I made the mistake of building a NAS for one at one point but it turns out that you need to be really diligent about documenting the setup as rebuilding a raid5 array when it inevitably fails can be very difficult if you don't remember what the actual configuration was.
ZFS mirror pools is where it's at.
I can pop out any one drive of the pool and take it to any random unrelated machine and restore everything.
- rbanffy 5y agoThere’s a very funny video about that done with USB sticks. They remove all sticks then randomly put them back while the ZFS volume slowly comes back to life.