• BrownianMotion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    With drives that size, you should be talking RAID6, 80TB storage and 40TB checksum.

    Rebuilds will take a long time, and with RAID6 you can at least suffer 2 drives failures and continue to operate fully.

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      10 months ago

      I did go for SHR-2 (Synology’s take on raid 6) with 2 drive failure protection. And I’m considering getting a “hot spare” drive. My effective storage is just 70TB (still +30TB upgrade over my old setup). But redunancy sure is expensive.

      Also that’s 70 actual TB not what the HDD manufacture sells you. They sell you a 20 TB drive, but it’s actually 20 tebibyte … which is just 18.2 terrabyte.