@madeindex my server serves multiple purposes. DNS (including my own DNSBL to filter a lot of ads and malicious sites), web, MTA and other things. I'm glad I got the XL case though! It is so spacious and the airflow is FANTASTIC. I've not maxed out fans and the temperatures are amazing. It's the Fractal Design Define 7 XL. Wonderful case. The last one I built was Define 6 (R6?). The most annoying part of it all was the change of no longer allowing booting of non GPT-partitions.
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@madeindex ... and to me the idea of secure boot is ridiculous. Mostly it is a clever way to lock people down into an OS namely Windows. If that is security then I am a dwarf and that I most certainly am not. The fact MS forces Win11 people to have it only shows all the more its true purpose. But CSM was not allowed. Intel stopped supporting it. Thankfully (never thought I'd say this) Red Hat axed CentOS and I had upgraded to Rocky: at that point I got a 4TB disk so GPT.
@madeindex I also got 2x8TB disks and put them in the raid6 arrays (and for /boot raid1). So now I have 2x8TB, 1x4TB, 4x2TB. I plan on replacing the older ones with 8TB disks and near maxing out it out. But this is a project that will take months. It's not urgent although it'll be nice. It'll also be nice to have the disks at different purchase dates. Makes it less likely more than one will die at the same time. Which has happened to both a long time friend of mine and myself - decades ago.
@xexyl Yes, had the same issue once, smart going with that many disks. Why don't you use SSD's aren't they safer?
@madeindex yeah yeah .. no moving parts but they're not financially worth it. My secondary backup disk is an SSD (the other one is an RDX). But I have now 7 HDDs. I'm working on (over months) of replacing the old ones with 8TB and adding additional ones to add to my arrays (with spares). But as for SSD: they're not any safer I should say if there is a power fault. Though for me that would have to be a PSU as I have a SmartUPS (so highly unlikely .. plus our solar panels have batteries).
@madeindex as it is the 8TB HDDs I'm getting are quite high in price. SSDs would be much more I'd guess. Also the case is fit for more HDDs. Up to 18. People who buy HDDs that are say 22TB are crazy I think. Better to have redundant storage. I guess some might put those in a raid but that's really expensive. Maybe they have the money and that's fine but I'd rather not risk data: even with dual backups. Only recently I added the second backup disk. With the new server actually.
@madeindex the #MacBookPro #M4Max has an external (USB-C) HDD for backup. The #M1Max is bricked thanks to #Apple releasing their crapware #macOS ( #macOS26) knowing full well that in beta they were bricking devices. But once I get that repaired (DFU failed here) if Apple's so-called 'geniuses' can fix it it's still not worth an extra backup as it was used to set up the M4 Max. The M1 Max needs the keyboard replaced too. Thank goodness I got the M4 Max earlier this year!
@madeindex I did have a #fedora box but over a year and a half ago I made a terrible mistake at stupid o'clock. One disk had a SMART error (bad sector) so I replaced it .. but then I thought to self: why not make /boot #raid5 like the others (server is #raid6 and #raid1)? I was not thinking ... /boot was messed up. Couldn't salvage it. And I haven't been bothered enough to repair it. #anaconda is pathetic with md+lvm and I have the laptop so not worth it to me for now.
