On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:20 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right now, I have a three drive setup in a removable cage for the NAS > box.
If you only need three drives I'm sure you can find cheap used hardware that will handle that. Odds are it will use way less power and perform better than whatever you're going to upgrade your system to. > I'm not familiar with Ceph but I've seen it mentioned before. Do NOT deploy Ceph with three drives on one host. Ceph is what you think about using when you are tired of stacking HBAs to cram a dozen SATA ports in a single host. It isn't what you'd use for backup/etc storage. Honestly, if you're just looking for backup drives I'd consider USB3 drives you just plug into a host and run in a zpool or whatever. Export the filesystem and unplug the drives and you're done. That is how I backup Ceph right now (k8s job that runs restic against ceph dumping it on a zpool). -- Rich
