quick question for my nas build

[Technomancer__]

i am planing to buy a nas

it will have 3 drives in raid 5 (on open media vault) and a boot drive and it got me thinking what if the boot drive fails. (btw they will be all backed up offsite).

should I get 2 boot drives and raid 1 them with the motherboard? btw the motherboard is Gigabyte Aorus X470 Ultra

[Electronics Wizardy]

If the boot drive fails, the raid will be able to be rebounted on anouther system.

 

Why a x470 board? Kinda overkill here. Id get a low power celeron system.

 

Why open media vault? 

 

Id use a usb stick fo the install.

[Technomancer__]

17 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why open media vault? 

 

because it has expandable raid 5 support

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Technomancer__ said:

because it has expandable raid 5 support

How about unraid or snapraid or storage spaces? That will also let you expand and mix drive sizes.

 

 

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

How about unraid 

 

 

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i love the whole unraid thing with the vm and stuff but i heard it doesn't give much of a performance boost from lots of drives

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Technomancer__ said:

i love the whole unraid thing with the vm and stuff but i heard it doesn't give much of a performance boost from lots of drives

What are you using the storage for? How much performance do you need?

 

How about storage spaces or btrfs?

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

What are you using the storage for? How much performance do you need?

 

How about storage spaces or btrfs?

now that i look at it again unraid also doesn't spin up the drives that is not using thus increasing their lifespan.

since i dont really need the speed its a nice tradeoff
thanks for the help!

[Technomancer__]

@Electronics Wizardyjust one question for unraid

can i start with one parity and one data and expand down the line?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Technomancer__ said:

@Electronics Wizardyjust one question for unraid

can i start with one parity and one data and expand down the line?

Yep, you can start with one data drive, and add parity drives and data drives and cache drives as you go.

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yep, you can start with one data drive, and add parity drives and data drives and cache drives as you go.

sweet

since i need protection i will start with 1 data and 1 parity

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Technomancer__ said:

sweet

since i need protection i will start with 1 data and 1 parity

Just saying, if you care about your data you also need backups.

[Technomancer__]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Just saying, if you care about your data you also need backups.

yea i already said there will be offsite backups. 

i was thinking about backblaze

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Technomancer__ said:

yea i already said there will be offsite backups. 

i was thinking about backblaze

Yep that will work fine then. 

[Technomancer__]

@Electronics Wizardy help appreciated very much thank you!