Have been having HDD issues and am recovering data slowly. One would think that I'd have set up RAID and all that, but I'm also using a really cheap rig with not many SATA slots available (just 3).

So hello to all after a long absence from the WWIV scene.


xenos


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So hello to all after a long absence from the WWIV scene.

Welcome Back!

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Have been having HDD issues and am recovering data slowly. One would
think that
I'd have set up RAID and all that, but I'm also using a really cheap rig with
not many SATA slots available (just 3).

I feel ya. I hate drive crashes, so much so that when I built my file server I opted to do RAID6, wasting two drives for parity due to paranoia lol. Of course, I built the array in 2007 and in all that time I've only had drives fall off the array a few times... and all I had to do was pop them out, then back in and let it rebuild and it was fine.

Ran out of space in the array though, so I grabbed a machine with 8 SATA ports and been chucking 8 TB drives in JBOD to have space when needed. Thinking about starting to swap some of those for 20 TB drives, but it makes me *really* nervous having such a huge amount of data on a single drive. I'd really like to swap the drives in the array for 20s but it's a 16 drive chassis and I can't afford that, lol


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Ran out of space in the array though, so I grabbed a machine with 8 SATA ports and been chucking 8 TB drives in JBOD to have space when needed. Thinking about starting to swap some of those for 20 TB drives, but it
makes me *really* nervous having such a huge amount of data on a single drive. I'd really like to swap the drives in the array for 20s but it's a
16 drive chassis and I can't afford that, lol

I use RAID5 for my arrays and the big negative is the long and I/O intensive rebuilds if/when needed. I don't go past 8 drives in RAID5 due to it taking upwards to a week to replace a drive/rebuild.

I have several arrays on my storage server and a few more on my ESXi server. Using (8) 14TB drives, the original building too close to 3 weeks to complete. On the SSD drives, it is much faster but still takes a good while.

Always keep good backups of anything that you can't replace or re-download.

- Mark

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On Friday,May 31, 2024 at 06:10 AM, Xenos wrote:

Have been having HDD issues and am recovering data slowly. One would

think that
I'd have set up RAID and all that, but I'm also using a really cheap rig with
not many SATA slots available (just 3).

So hello to all after a long absence from the WWIV scene.

xenos

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Thats a real bummer but looks like you've got things getting back up and online? I sure hope so. I'm in the process of moving 3 BBSes from my older machine that is slowing dramatically to a new machine I just built. I haven't played with RAID yet but have the drives now to do so. Looks like Is hould set that up before going down the Jellyfin rabbit hole.... Is your BBS able to be called? I need to call all WWIV BBSes again, a few were down the last time I tried.

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I use RAID5 for my arrays and the big negative is the long and I/O
intensive rebuilds if/when needed. I don't go past 8 drives in RAID5
due to it taking upwards to a week to replace a drive/rebuild.

Interesting. I'd have thought then 16 at RAID6 would comparatively take a month, lol. When I had to pull/reinsert a drive, the controller said status was "rebuilding" but it was done in just a few days.

Are you using software RAID perchance? Either that or I just got really odd controller, hehe.


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Interesting. I'd have thought then 16 at RAID6 would comparatively take a month, lol. When I had to pull/reinsert a drive, the controller said
status was "rebuilding" but it was done in just a few days.

Are you using software RAID perchance? Either that or I just got really
odd controller, hehe.

I'm using Megaraid 9261-8i controllers. They are old, no doubt. When I eventually replace my ESXi motherboard, RAM, CPUs, etc, I will get a slightly more modern LSI controller.

The array is over 100TB, so it takes a solid 7-8 days to rebuild when replacing a drive. That is even giving it high priority on the rebuild and slowing things down massively.

Doing this with SSD is much quicker. I have a RAID5 array of (12) 480G SSDs and that is much quicker. The vast majority of my ESXi server VMs are using SSD. The only thing using spinners now are my downloading VM and archives, content, and backups.

- Mark

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