I personally think of a small DIY rack stuffed with commodity HDDs off Ebay with an LVM spanned across a bunch of RAID1s. I don’t want any complex architectural solutions since my homelab’s scale always equals 1. To my current understanding this has little to no obvious drawbacks. What do you think?

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I just use mergerfs and SnapRAID so I can scale dynamically when I can afford new drives. Granted it’s all fully replaceable media files on my end, so I’m not obsessed with data integrity.

    • rcmd@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      Well, this path seems to be the most appropriate for what I am for.

      And more to that, both mergerfs and snapraid are available out of the box in the latest stable Debian release.

      Thanks for pointing me at it!

      • signalsayge@infosec.pubEnglish
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        11 hours ago

        This is what I’m doing as well. The nice thing about it is that it supports different sized drives in the same mergerfs mount and with snapraid, you just need to make sure one of your biggest drives is the parity drive. I’ve got 10 drives right now with 78TB usable in the mergerfs mount and two 14TB drives acting as parity. I’ve been able to build it up over the years and add slowly.