How much usable space you need? Id probably do a mirror of 12tb+ drives and call it a day. Rip and compress doesn’t use much bandwidth. And no need to shred SSDs /wear lifetime for rip n compress.
as my current load of image,audio, an video an docs - (very important cant lose) is a current combined total of 4.675tb an took about 6years to get ther so if with this raidz2 config if im reading it
right would give me a Practical usable storage capacity of 9.679427 an my current pace of fillage is about a tb about a year or so at a time ( i dont add big vid files that often ) if figure that plenty of breathing room
an the total cost of build with even ssd’s is fine for me
but if going with hdd’s instead of ssd’s or a combo of both would be better sure would this hdd be a good one
A (failed) recording method of HDDs. Increase the capacity by gimping the write speed. People with ZFS pools report several weeks of resilver time. You always want CMR (conventional magnetic recording) for your server.
oh ok , so eventho its more i think ill stick with the ssds
an to wndell’s shred SSDs /wear lifetime for rip n compress ref , i only do the rip n compress when i add a new bd or 4k film or box set an thats rare maybe every other six months as i dont buy new stuff all the time
What is your target disk capacity? What is your target use case?
On my server, the data currently is disposable so I don’t have redundancy or backups, that will not be the case forever. I plan to have a single zfs SSD with 10 minute snapshots, then daily spin up a hdd, and migrate a daily diff to it, then keep the daily diff until I run out of space.
My data / VM ssd is a u.2 intel D7-5600 6.4TB that I picked up last week for $369. It is not the fastest SSD, but it is close, it is 300 times faster than the HDD it is replacing and 10x to 20x the sustained speed of a generic 4TB m.2 ssd.
2 years ago I took a stack of 31 hard drives that I had used to migrate and backup over the past couple of decades, and hand deduplicated them. It took about 3 weeks, and in the end I had 3TB of data which I put on an 8TB drive. I then replicated that to 2 additional 8tb drives. I feel that this gives me sufficient redundancy for my archival data. I was then able to wipe (3 passes) those drives so that they were now blank and could no longer haunt me.
I know about arrays, and they are not the only solution to avoid data loss.
