RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?
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@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:
@dustinb3403 Well I looked up Dell drives and the 3.84 SATA read-intensive drives are going for ~$1800 a piece (before any discounting).
Move off of the Dell device. You can get into a Synology or something else with two bays for far less money than the price difference of the drives!
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@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:
@pete-s How much are two 3.84TB enterprise SSDs going to cost me again?
No need, not even recommended, to use enterprise drives. Backup use cases are not good for enterprise drives. Good consumer drives will give you much better value.
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@jaredbusch said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:
@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:
Hear me out...I have a Dell server that I use as a Veeam replication target. This host is used as a backup in case my primary server dies - I just turn on the replicas and run from it until primary host is repaired.
This is not a backup. This is a replica. These are completely different things.
Do you actually have a backup?
Oh good point, I missed that. That makes the SSDs that much more important as you want it to be able to perform if it gets used!
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@scottalanmiller said
It's always array size, never drive size, that matters primarily.
Just so I make sure I understand, array size meaning total TB or total number of disks?
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@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:
@scottalanmiller said
It's always array size, never drive size, that matters primarily.
Just so I make sure I understand, array size meaning total TB or total number of disks?
Total capacity.
