[ale] RAID card for home use?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:22:20AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 09/28/2015 07:43 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> > > (I've been using 3Ware cards for about 15 years now; a 9650SE-16ML is
> >  currently powering the system I'm sending this from.  I've not had a
> >  single controller-related failure with these things))
> so what do you do with this card??

I currently have three arrays hanging off that card:

 1TB   RAID1 (2x1TB, OS and homedirs)
 4.5TB RAID5 (4x1.5TB, storage)
 6TB   RAID5 (4x2TB, more storage)

The important (ie non-recreatable) stuff on the RAID5 arrays is 
periodically archived onto optical (Blu-ray) media.  until I'm able to 
completely fill up an optical disk, everything pending is backed up 
(along with OS stuff) to an eSATA disk using rdiff-backup, preserving 30 
days of history.

Overall things are about 55% utilized; when I hit 66% I'll replace the 
4x1.5TB array with 4x3TB disks, and retire a bunch of 1TB drives in the 
process.  That'll probably happen in the spring, or if something fails 
first.  :)
 
 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy        		       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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