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Asking advice for home storage configuration (l.antiope.link)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PigeonCatcher@l.antiope.link to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world

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Hi all. I’m trying to choose a configuration for my home storage. Speed is not a priority, I want a balance of stability and performance. I was thinking of making a raid 6 array with an ext4 file system for 4 disks of 2 TB each. Asking for advice, will this configuration be optimal?

Note - I am going to make a raid array based on external usb drives, which I will plug into the orange pi

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[–] PigeonCatcher@l.antiope.link 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I know there are issues with growing ZFS raidz. Gonna reconsider it.