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Reasier posted:Is there a preferred brand of HDs for NAS? I just need 2x 6-10TB drives. I have WD Reds and have had no issues for like 4 years but need more space. Get something designed for 24/7 operation with the longest available warranty, likely 5 years.
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huhu posted:I'm wondering if folks could recommend me an alternative here for cloud storage? I don't really need a fancy setup, would prefer offsite. I only need about 300GB of storage. I set up a Hetzner storage box recently. It's not very user friendly* but it's also €3.84 a month for 1TB of storage and unlimited traffic. I use Kopia to do the actual backups. *You get limited shell access (and various other protocols) to a linux box with the storage, the rest is an exercise for the reader
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sinky posted:I set up a Hetzner storage box recently. It's not very user friendly* but it's also €3.84 a month for 1TB of storage and unlimited traffic. I use Kopia to do the actual backups. This looks tempting, I'm currently paying twice that per month for roughly the same amount of B2 storage.
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In TrueNAS Scale Electric Eel 24.10.2.1 I'm looking to expand my 14TBx6 RaidZ2 vdev to 14TBx8 by adding two more drives. Is this as simple as adding the drives in one at a time and clicking the expand button in the UI and waiting a really long time? Since my motherboard only has 6 SATA inputs I'm going to be using a PCI-E to SATA adapter card. Could that cause any issues? I have also read about ZFS rebalancing which basically involves rewriting all of the old data after the expansion under the new parity-to-data ratio. Is that something that still needs to be done manually, or would help? Like this script here: https://github.com/markusressel/zfs-inplace-rebalancing Is this again just a matter of running the .sh file once and waiting a really really long time? Thanks for any help
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Basically yes. For me expansion was slow but it went faster when I increased some cache sizes. Rewriting the data gets you more space back, so that could be done to largest datasets at least.
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Eh, 25.04 was released and AFAIK it contains the changes that significantly speed up RAID-Z expansion. Unless you're using VMs (because there's no converter to this Incus stuff), I'd consider upgrading TrueNAS first before expanding.
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I upgraded to 24.10 and CPU usage has gone down a bit, corresponding to less power use... need to run it on a kill-a-watt for a week to see what kind of power use we're looking at  
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Ihmemies posted:Basically yes. For me expansion was slow but it went faster when I increased some cache sizes. Combat Pretzel posted:Eh, 25.04 was released and AFAIK it contains the changes that significantly speed up RAID-Z expansion. Unless you're using VMs (because there's no converter to this Incus stuff), I'd consider upgrading TrueNAS first before expanding. Thanks for the tips. I was experimenting with some VMs earlier, but I don't have any critical ones I'm using at the moment. I'll upgrade to the newest train and look into increasing the cache sizes then.
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Hey, so I have Synology DS423+ on DSM 7.2.2. Currently I have 3 14TB drives shucked from WD Elements (WD141x1/WD140x2) using SHR. I'm wanting to increase my pool, but with all the synology news, how much do I need to worry about drive brands? I'd like to pick up a 20TB and then eventually step up one of my current 14TB drives to match giving me 2x20TB/2x14TB. Is there a current list of compatable drives? Should I stick with WD Reds? I was looking at https://serverpartdeals.com/ to price it out.
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A Bag of Milk posted:Thanks for the tips. I was experimenting with some VMs earlier, but I don't have any critical ones I'm using at the moment. I'll upgrade to the newest train and look into increasing the cache sizes then. There should be no need to touch the cache settings in 25.04. I don’t know how they achieved this thing mentioned in patch notes, but it should now be fast enough: 5X Acceleration of the RAID-Z expansion process lets you make use of added capacity with less wait E. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/16819 Ihmemies fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Apr 21, 2025 |
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Combat Pretzel posted:Eh, 25.04 was released and AFAIK it contains the changes that significantly speed up RAID-Z expansion. Unless you're using VMs (because there's no converter to this Incus stuff), I'd consider upgrading TrueNAS first before expanding. You should be able to import your KVM VMs into Incus directly. You may need to mess with drivers inside the VMs before upgrading, i.e. moving network to virtio.
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deong posted:Hey, so I have Synology DS423+ on DSM 7.2.2. Currently I have 3 14TB drives shucked from WD Elements (WD141x1/WD140x2) using SHR. WD Red is safe enough. I think we've had the same debate 16 times in the past couple pages about how you can get away with less depending on use pattern or how often you want to switch stuff out.
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Ihmemies posted:There should be no need to touch the cache settings in 25.04. I don’t know how they achieved this thing mentioned in patch notes, but it should now be fast enough
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