Had a disk going read-only on me yesterday. I started getting SMART errors back in September but never got around to get a replacement.
I felt confident though, since I run #snapraid I would just restore the failed disk from the parity once it failed. However, once I replaces the disk and ran […]
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MergerFS: the step child of file systems. ZFS gets all the attention now a days.
However, for a media server I feel like there is no better solution than MergerFS.
Grab any size hard drive, pop it in and add it to the pool.
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Love my media server but I really need to get my storage sorted out. The drive Hokey Pokey to get the library drives mounted has officially gotten old. It’s just such a daunting project to transition & I think I need new hardware to boot. Bah. #homelab #jellyfin #mergerfs #snapraid
SMART HDD report showing 3 reallocated sectors and 112 pending sectors.
TestDisk status: 923 files copied from failing disk, 0 failed.
Welp. Looks like it's time to test GoHardDrive's warranty process. This drive's toast (or close to it).
Currently using TestDisk to transfer as much as I can to another drive. (I also have the SnapRAID parity to rebuild off from)
#homelab #SnapRAID #OpenMediaVault
Apparently #SnapRAID syncs are supposed to be fast.
#Radarr & #Sonarr update my media timestamps with the original airdate on every rescan.
In doing so, a time with an exact-zero nanoseconds is used. SnapRAID hates this, and nudges you to use `snapraid touch` to apply a random nonzero […]
Bought a MediaSonic PROBOX 4-bay enclosure and one of those 12TB refurb enterprise HGST Ultrastar HDDs from GoHardDrive.
Starting slow. But I think I'll buy a couple more of those HDDs soon and spin up some #SnapRAID for my developing #Plex hoarding problem.
And to think, I only had 1.5TB on […]
