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First two lines of the article: >At rsync.net we have trusted suppliers with verified supply chains and a long history of providing reliable service. >However
by epistasis 1y ago
First two lines of the article:
>At rsync.net we have trusted suppliers with verified supply chains and a long history of providing reliable service.
>However, from time to time, it is expedient to purchase parts from Amazon - something we do with care and suspicion.
That seems like a very reasonable and non-crazy approach to using Amazon.
- greenavocado 1y agoAs I pointed out in another post if you are using ZFS RAID Z2 you can use literal used garbage hard drives safely without risking data loss. ZFS helped me discover that my motherboard SATA chip can't handle 6 drives; I had to purchase a cheap Chinese PCI Express SATA controller to communicate with my drives reliably and error-free.
- dsr_ 1y agoNot for special VDEVs, which is the explicit purpose here.
- nubinetwork 1y agoYou can mirror a slog... l2arc doesn't need a mirror because the data is already on disk. I believe a split metadata can also be mirrored.
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- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoI'd be more worried about a supply chain attack with malicious devices.
- stavros 1y agoWhat kind of supply chain attack can one mount with a disk?
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y agoA malicious device plugged into your machine? The only limit is your imagination.
- DANmode 1y agoYep. Drive firmware is the attack vector, here, for anyone Googling or ChatGPT-ing along.
- 0x1ch 1y agoThis is how we operate at my job. We go through our trusted and reliable vendor, who gets us good pricing but doesn't always control shipping times. If it's urgent, Amazon will be delivered within 48 hrs.