I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively.
I would like to RAID them so that one drive dying doesn’t lose any of my media, and I was leaning towards Ubuntu server as an OS. I’m not sure how to do that, and I’m kind of poking around for info and advice. Hit me with it.
@originalucifer @blackstampede built in volume management, block level replication, instant snapshots, data integrity due to checksumming at the block level, compression it’s beautiful. Of course it does come at a cost: it’s got a learning curve, it’s got its own issues when you fill up the pool to 100 capacity., etc etc.