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[–] [email protected] 45 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

You mean I could lose even more data when it inevitably craps out?

(don't mind me, I'm dealing with a failed RAID5 array with one disk dead and one dying, I need to vent)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This is why we use RAID6 and not RAID5

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I use 5 at home, after all it's for things I could just 'acquire' again if needed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I mean if it's things you can go get again why not party hard and just use RAID0?

Im just kidding that's such a pain in the ass if anything breaks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Aka “my RAID are the other seeders🥸”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

It's not recklessness it's decentralized community based redundancy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I paid for gigabit I'm gonna use the whole gigabit lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well that's cheating. Easy to brag about internet speeds when you live inside of a data center lol.

That reminds me of an article from a few years back of this old woman in I wanna say Switzerland as well that at the time had the "fastest internet in the world". She said she used it to look up gardening tips lol.

I hope she had a dope garden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

🙊sorry

I'd guess she was from Norway, they have a way bigger fibre network than us and since longer time. Here you don’t have fibre if you are too far from a bigger city, yet. But at least we get about 1Gbit from our copper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Our government took 3 billion dollars of our tax money to bolster our Internet infrastructure.

That was like 12 years ago. The money just vanished and they went "oops". God I wish we had fiber everywhere.

I used to have fiber but now I'm on lowly copper gigabit lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

This is why I love the md array in Unraid. If I was to lose 1 data drive and 2 parity drives at once (unlikely), I’d still only lose the data on the single failed data drive, not the entire array as the data isn’t striped across all drives.

Yes it’s a bit slower but it’s my media server so still plenty fast for that.

[–] Technoguyfication 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

For real, the only hard drives I’ve ever had fail on me were Seagates.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve owned several hundreds of drives. No manufacturer is immune. It’s more about the drive model than anything. Enterprise disks are better. Each manufacturer has made crappy drives. Go for the nicer model of whomever you like, beat it to death in its first month. If it survives infant mortality it will last a long time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

We still have a Western Digital Caviar Black in our house that's still rocking and currently on 44k+ power on hours. We were expecting it to die a couple years ago but it didn't yet. Using it since 2009. This is the best one I've seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

nah my dude, we didn't (:

I inherited my predecessor's fuck-ups that are slowly revealing themselves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Damn sounds like the rebuild will be a nail biter! Hope it goes well, good luck and god speed. Toss in a couple hail Satan's too, you'll need all the help you can get

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Didn't yeah hear, hail Hitler's back in vogue