Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:20 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Right now, I have a three drive setup in a removable cage for the NAS >> box. > If you only need three drives I'm sure you can find cheap used > hardware that will handle that. Odds are it will use way less power > and perform better than whatever you're going to upgrade your system > to.
I only run that thing about 1 to 2 hours a week, maybe a couple hours or so more when updating the OS once a month. It doesn't run much but the new systems are very cheap on power usage and they do a ton more work. I recently bought a new A/C for my room. A old A/C unit from a couple decades ago pulled about 12 to 13 amps. One I bought a few years ago, about 7 to maybe 8 on a really hot day, and LOo compiling on top of that. ;-) This new unit, dang thing pulls about 3 amps and still cools really good. All those are the same 12,000BTU rating. Same brand even. A lot of stuff is getting more efficient. To compensate for that, the power companies go up on the KW rate. O_O If I didn't have these old parts laying around that still work, I'd do like you're thinking. Still, you have a good point. It is old. >> I'm not familiar with Ceph but I've seen it mentioned before. > Do NOT deploy Ceph with three drives on one host. > > Ceph is what you think about using when you are tired of stacking HBAs > to cram a dozen SATA ports in a single host. It isn't what you'd use > for backup/etc storage. > > Honestly, if you're just looking for backup drives I'd consider USB3 > drives you just plug into a host and run in a zpool or whatever. > Export the filesystem and unplug the drives and you're done. That is > how I backup Ceph right now (k8s job that runs restic against ceph > dumping it on a zpool). > I like LVM myself. Right now, it serves my needs very well. I tried that NAS OS a while back but I ran into issues with it. I switched the box to Gentoo and LVM. When I get ready to swap drives or something, same commands as my main rig. Nothing new to learn or remember. And it works fine. Still gonna google and see what Ceph is. You've mentioned it before and I think someone else has too. Mostly, curious. Dale :-) :-)
