Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 6 Aug 2023 10:49:12 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > On 8/5/23 17:27, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > [...] > > > > The first thing I wonder is whether you are going to overload your > > power supply by adding all these peripherals. Do the math. > > > There are no power hungry spinni

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 10:54:27AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/5/23 17:47, Andy Smith wrote: > > Do bear in mind that SSDs are not designed for long term unpowered > > data storage, unlike conventional HDDs, so that could be a > > consideration if you're intending to use these SSDs st

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/5/23 19:41, David Christensen wrote: On 8/5/23 12:03, gene heskett wrote: I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home.  That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can f

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/5/23 17:47, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 03:03:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: What doc should I follow to bring these 2 drives into one volume managed partition for amanda's use as a vtape device? I'd assume the volume management works by now, but it was a data losing

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/5/23 17:27, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 15:03:54 -0400 gene heskett wrote: I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T SSD

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/5/23 16:49, Dan Ritter wrote: gene heskett wrote: I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4 pin empty pig

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread gene heskett
On 8/5/23 16:31, Dan Ritter wrote: gene heskett wrote: I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4 pin empty pig

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 8/5/23 12:03, gene heskett wrote: > > What doc should I follow to bring these 2 drives into one volume managed > > partition for amanda's use as a vtape device? I'd assume the volume > > management works by now, but it was a data losing disaster 15+ years ago > > when

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread David Christensen
On 8/5/23 12:03, gene heskett wrote: I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home.  That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4 pin empty pigtail on the psu

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 03:03:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > What doc should I follow to bring these 2 drives into one volume managed > partition for amanda's use as a vtape device? I'd assume the volume > management works by now, but it was a data losing disaster 15+ years ago > when I

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 15:03:54 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. > > I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for > /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. > > I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4 p

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Dan Ritter
gene heskett wrote: > I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. > > I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home. > That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. > > I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4 pin empty pigtail on > the psu, I'll p

Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread gene heskett
I've an asus mobo with 6 sata ports, 5 are busy. I also have another 6 port with 4 ports tied up serving a raid 10 for /home. That leaves 2 ports empty on that controller. I have a handful of 2T SSD's. If I can find another 4 pin empty pigtail on the psu, I'll plug 2 of these 2T's into that