2015-02-04, 16:08
@poofyhairguy
Just curious, have you tried using snapraid to protect stored media content? http://snapraid.sourceforge.net/
It's very good (and free of charge). I have a homebuilt HTPC containing 4 x 2TB Green HDDs, 1 disk of which holds the parity file to protect the content on the other 3 disks.
Note that the drives are not RAIDed (no striping of data or pooling). Each of the 3 data drives is a standalone volume (some use ext4, some XFS, depended on my preference at the time of filesystem creation) and the parity file is created on disk 4. So if at anytime you decide to ditch snapraid, you can just delete the parity file on disk 4 and re-purpose accordingly, the 3 other data disks are left untouched. Of course the other benefit is you can add parity to an existing setup without having to wipe everything to create a raid array.
Been running snapraid for a while now and I update the parity file once a week (it's enough for my use based on the volume of change that occurs in a week). It's already saved me a few times where I have mistakenly deleted files as I can do selective file, folder or whole disk restores from parity.
Just thought I'd mention it as it is a nice piece of free software.
Just curious, have you tried using snapraid to protect stored media content? http://snapraid.sourceforge.net/
It's very good (and free of charge). I have a homebuilt HTPC containing 4 x 2TB Green HDDs, 1 disk of which holds the parity file to protect the content on the other 3 disks.
Note that the drives are not RAIDed (no striping of data or pooling). Each of the 3 data drives is a standalone volume (some use ext4, some XFS, depended on my preference at the time of filesystem creation) and the parity file is created on disk 4. So if at anytime you decide to ditch snapraid, you can just delete the parity file on disk 4 and re-purpose accordingly, the 3 other data disks are left untouched. Of course the other benefit is you can add parity to an existing setup without having to wipe everything to create a raid array.
Been running snapraid for a while now and I update the parity file once a week (it's enough for my use based on the volume of change that occurs in a week). It's already saved me a few times where I have mistakenly deleted files as I can do selective file, folder or whole disk restores from parity.
Just thought I'd mention it as it is a nice piece of free software.