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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Sounds like a plan. Only optimal if you situation calls for it. Some things to keep in mind, are is software or hardware raid. Also, backups out of this setup would be good. I like snapshotting, so that might be something you might want to think bout.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, i am going to use off-site backup as well. Is snapshotting a thing in ext4 setup? don't wanna go with btrfs, i heard that raid 6 with it goes bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh, found out that I can use LVM for taking ext4 snapshots!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I've used lvm with snapshotting with great success. Raid is great, just remember it is only one measure for data retention. Another optional addition would be add a hot spare.

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