Wols Lists wrote: > On 12/04/2022 18:21, Laurence Perkins wrote: >> You can get up to 16X SATA PCI-e cards these days for pretty cheap. >> So as long as you have the power to run another drive or two there's >> not much reason not to do RAID on the important stuff. Also, the >> SATA protocol allows for port expanders, which are also pretty cheap. >> >> One of my favorite things about BTRFS is the data checksums. If the >> drive returns garbage, it turns into a read error. Also, if you >> can't do real RAID, but have excess space you can tell it to keep two >> copies of everything. Doesn't help with total drive failure, but >> does protect against the occasional failed sector. If you don't mind >> writes taking twice as long anyway. > > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid > > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/System2020 > > That system in the second link is the system being used to type this > message ... > > Cheers, > Wol > >
Neat setup. I need something similar for a NAS setup thingy. Just got way to much going on right now. Dale :-) :-)
