▲ 531 ▼ Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 1 year ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 124 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (3 children) RAID5, don't fail me now! permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) As a PSA: depending on your needs (bcs I see a lot of simple homelabs RAIDing), consider second server or even second location simple snapshot backup vs same-machine duplication. Like, which would you want to set up first depending on your specific risks profile. The later is like like a proper backup, the former more of a low-downtime strat (that most smol homelabs can do without - "just wait a day, mom") Eg as the most basic example - instead of local duplication you could have a small PC (even like some old Pi), big HDD, and rsync once a day. (Ofc, with duplicated serves, finances permitting, you can also provide backup services which helps that downtime issue. And by finances I mean the rest of your server group stuff, which in my cases is mostly HDD cost anyways.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] apftwb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) Got it!* *puts a Timeshift partition on the same RAID array permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago Lol (but ppl do that). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago (2 children) As a PSA: depending on your needs (bcs I see a lot of simple homelabs RAIDing), consider second server or even second location simple snapshot backup vs same-machine duplication. Like, which would you want to set up first depending on your specific risks profile. The later is like like a proper backup, the former more of a low-downtime strat (that most smol homelabs can do without - "just wait a day, mom") Eg as the most basic example - instead of local duplication you could have a small PC (even like some old Pi), big HDD, and rsync once a day. (Ofc, with duplicated serves, finances permitting, you can also provide backup services which helps that downtime issue. And by finances I mean the rest of your server group stuff, which in my cases is mostly HDD cost anyways.) permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] apftwb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) Got it!* *puts a Timeshift partition on the same RAID array permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago Lol (but ppl do that). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 child) Got it!* *puts a Timeshift partition on the same RAID array permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago Lol (but ppl do that). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago Lol (but ppl do that). permalink fedilink source parent