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"Yeah, I just saved them to the NAS earlier today before it started making noise"
- User about to have a bad day, possibly me in the future....
My predecessor at work had a "backup scheme" where each week a full copy of important VMs' virtual disks would be pulled by a backup VM. Two issues with that. One, the VMs were not powered off and nothing ensured that the disks were synced. Two, the backups were made onto the same physical host with no replication or high availability beyond RAID 1.
Yeah, at the moment I am building a home server running TrueNAS, it is the only backup I will have, but it is far better than having everything on a single HDD in my computer...
I need the final two HDDs to set up my raid and start using the server.
I have a question about my raid though.
Is it better to run it with four data drives, one parity, and one hot spare, or should I run it with four data drives and two parity drives, and no hot spare?
I am running 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf Pro drives, from (hopefully) separate batches.
The CPU is an AMD Ryzen 4600G and I have 32GB ram in it.
I want to add another SATA controller and add two SSDs, one for L2 cache, and one for applications and VMs, as well as add a low profile GPU for transcoding and later a 10G NIC