On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Bob Sanders <rsand...@sgi.com> wrote: > Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: >> Hi all, >> The list is quiet. Please excuse me waking it up. (Or trying to...) ;-) >> >> I'm at the point where I'm a few months from running out of disk >> space on my RAID6 so I'm considering how to move forward. I thought >> I'd check in here and get any ideas folks have. Thanks in advance. >> > > Beware - if Adobe acroread is used, and you opt for a 3TB home > directory, there is a chance it will not work. Or more specifically, > acroread is still 32-bit. It's only something I've seen with the xfs > filesystem. And Adobe has ignored it for approx. 3yrs now. >
acroread isn't critical to me but it does get used now and then so thanks for the heads-up. <SNIP> > > RAID 1 is fine, RAID 10 is better, but comsumes 4 drives and SATA ports. Humm...I suppose I might consider building a 4-drive 1TB RAID10 from my existing 500GB RE3 drives, and then buy a couple of 2TB Red drives and do a RAID1 for data storage. If I did that I'd end up with 6 drives in the box, 4 of them old, but old ain't necessarily bad. ;-) However that forces me to manage what data goes where instead of just a big, flat RAID1 which is going to be easy to live with. Still, it would probably save some money. <SNIP> > > If you change, do not use ZFS and possibly BTRFS if the system does not > have ECC DRAM. A single, unnoticed, ECC error can corrupt the data pool > and be written to the file system, which effectively renders it corrupt > without a way to recover. Thanks. No ECC and no real interest in doing anything very exotic. > > FWIW - a Synology DS414slim can hold 4 x 1TB WD Red NAS 2.5" drives and > provide a boot of nfs or iSCSI to your VMs. The downside is the NAS box > and drives would go for a bit north of $636. The upside is all your > movies and VM files could move off your workstation and the workstation > would still host the VMs via a mount of the NAS box. > NAS is an interesting idea. I'll do a little study but my initial feeling is that it's more money than I really want to spend. Summer's coming. Time for Margaritas! Thanks, Mark
