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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:34AM (3 children)
Thinking about running RAID 1. Would that be feasible in a modern desktop (performance/stability etc.) or should I get a dedicated SAN?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @10:33AM
ZFS is a lot easier and nicer than "real" RAID though, plus it has NFS built in and makes backups super easy. I would go dedicated, just because it will save you a lot on your energy bill (but if the PC never gets shut down just use that if you've got space in the case).
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Friday March 08 2019, @10:56PM (1 child)
Running software RAID 1 on an ancient intel desktop tower. It gathers too much dist on the floor.
I set up partitions on two hard drives, combine them into a RAID 1, and put lvm on top of that.
This setup has worked for years, and has survived several hard drive failures.
Some space is left out of the RAID in case it's useful, for example, in case booting is best done from an off-RAID or I want a machine-readable marker do distinguish the two physical drives.
And backups are on USB drives, kept disconnected except when actually backing up or restoring.
(Score: 3, Informative) by hendrikboom on Friday March 08 2019, @10:57PM
I make this storage available on my LAN using sshfs.