RAID6 or Z2?

[Bmoney]

Which is better solution I like the ZFS parity and fault tolerance and have seen a lot of people praise BSD. But I have decided to run a Linux Server as my file server, PLex server, (future email), back-up server on a Dell FS12-TY. Also which is better for expandability. If I wanted to add more hard drives. 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

You can run ZFS on linux if you want.

 

If you have a raid card, just run raid 5/6, they don't do jbod well, esp on those older servers

[Bmoney]

Electronics Wizardy you have been so helpful thank you. You said I would have no issue on transcoding with that rig before correct?

 

Also the other gent said there non-vm options for my quarantine setup I want do you know of them?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Bmoney said:

Electronics Wizardy you have been so helpful thank you. You said I would have no issue on transcoding with that rig before correct?

 

Also the other gent said there non-vm options for my quarantine setup I want do you know of them?

For transcending should be fine on plex for 2+ users. You can get much more cpu perofrmance if you put dual 6s in it but I'd wait until you our for cpu.  For non vm splitting containers are used. There use a bit less ram than a vm, but are less secure and use the same kernel so you can't have a different version running. In Linux look at lxc containers. 

 

[manikyath]

if you have the option to go hardware raid, you probably should do hardware raid.

 

in terms of adding drives... neither solutions are really meant for that, i'd rather suggest having a cold backup you can rely on as storage when expanding your main array. (or have two arrays that act as protection for each other, you have plenty of drive bays)

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, manikyath said:

if you have the option to go hardware raid, you probably should do hardware raid.

 

in terms of adding drives... neither solutions are really meant for that, i'd rather suggest having a cold backup you can rely on as storage when expanding your main array. (or have two arrays that act as protection for each other, you have plenty of drive bays)

Normally hardware raid can easily expand if the controller supports it. 

 

But you should have a backup, unless this is the backup server. 

[manikyath]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Normally hardware raid can easily expand if the controller supports it. 

 

But you should have a backup, unless this is the backup server. 

i'm sure you can (certainly with dell server gear, if it's an option, it's in there somewhere), it's just more so that it's not the ideal solution.

[leadeater]

15 minutes ago, manikyath said:

if you have the option to go hardware raid, you probably should do hardware raid.

 

in terms of adding drives... neither solutions are really meant for that, i'd rather suggest having a cold backup you can rely on as storage when expanding your main array. (or have two arrays that act as protection for each other, you have plenty of drive bays)

 

10 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Normally hardware raid can easily expand if the controller supports it. 

 

But you should have a backup, unless this is the backup server. 

Expanding hardware RAID arrays is actually common, more common the further you go back since disks were much smaller. Not that this goes against your point, if something goes wrong during an expansion that is really really bad.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, leadeater said:

if something goes wrong during an expansion that is really really bad.

and thats why we have HA and backups. and if the shit hits the fan, we pull out the tape.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, leadeater said:

 

Expanding hardware RAID arrays is actually common, more common the further you go back since disks were much smaller. Not that this goes against your point, if something goes wrong during an expansion that is really really bad.

which is what got me the idea of the "two raid arrays to bounce back and forth on"

 

in essence if both arrays contain the same data, you could take one array down to upgrade, let it rebuild, then do the other. and because i'm paranoid, have a cold backup as well

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and yes, i've defenately seen the small hard drive thing, i personally have the death of a few hundred 72GB hard drives on my hands