Not sure why this doesn’t exist. I don’t need 12TB of storage. When I had a Google account I never even crossed 15GB. 1TB should be plenty for myself and my family. I want to use NVMe since it is quieter and smaller. 2230 drives would be ideal. But I want 1 boot drive and 2 x storage drives in RAID. I guess I could potentially just have 2xNVMe and have the boot partition in RAID also? Bonus points if I can use it as a wireless router also.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    8 months ago

    I work with real servers. SD card boot media is generally a bad idea. VMware officially semi-deprecated it a while back. Unless you tune your install to redirect typical I/O to the durable drives (which is going to be a pain, having to find and reconfigure all those services), typical logging to disk and various temp files are going to wear it out pretty quickly.

    I would just use two drives and not separate the OS. That way, you also don’t have to worry about the OS drive failing and taking down the server.

    Just be careful if you reinstall. I’d suggest deleting the OS partitions first, then reinstalling to the empty space, instead of trusting the installer to do it properly.

    • PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      Any more information on doing a redirect of the typical I/O in a server booted from microSD?

      Edit: Nevermind asked the “AI” and found some answers online.

      • SethayyEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Alpine Linux’s setup has some nice options for this too

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      Unless you tune your install to redirect typical I/O to the durable drives (which is going to be a pain, having to find and reconfigure all those services), typical logging to disk and various temp files are going to wear it out pretty quickly.

      Obviousy :)