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Consolidate storage space - JimmyDB - 2023-10-22
hi,
what is the usual way to concatenate multiple HDDs for the movies in an Ubuntu server? RAID0 is dangerous after all with about 5+ HDDs, with other RAID versions I lose space.
Is there anything in between, if one HDD is broken only the data of that HDD is missing?
thanks!
RE: Consolidate storage space - crobibero - 2023-10-22
I personally use snapraid and mergerfs and haven’t had any issues
RE: Consolidate storage space - archon - 2023-10-22
You may lose storage space, but your choices are maximum space with zero redundancy or less space and able to survive a failed drive. Hard drives do fail, sometimes with zero warning, so having the ability to survive drive failures is well worth the "lost" space. The best trade-off in terms of space not available for data is RAID5 or RAID6; RAID5 (minimum of 3 equally-sized drives) can survive the loss of any single disk, RAID6 (minimum of 4 equally-sized drives) can survive the loss of any two disks and rebuilding the array after a failed disk is less error-prone.
RE: Consolidate storage space - JimmyDB - 2023-10-22
mergerfs looks suitable. Do you also use the "arr" programs with it?