Backups are important, we all know that, but often times we don’t do what we say. This goes over all my various methods for backing up my data and attempting to follow the 3-2-1 policy.
Continue reading “Backups and Data Synchronization”UnRAID XFS MetaData Corruption
One thing you never want to see when you look at the screen for your file server is an error about corrupted data. Let alone after seeing read errors from one of your disks during a parity check. I recently had that sort of fun with my NAS.
Continue reading “UnRAID XFS MetaData Corruption”NAS Build
I started my original NAS build with inexpensive quality consumer components, but by now its become a strange chimera of enterprise and consumer gear. The main goals: low power, quiet, high storage density
With the focus, the main decision was on a case, 8 hdd’s were the minimum number of bays, and having a few 5.25″ bays allowed me to use a 5×3 cage to add more hdd bays. From some research, it can also be found that another stack of hdd cages can be added to the case with relative ease, bringing the total number of disks held to ~21.
| Case | Fractal Design Define XL R2 |
| CPU | Intel Xeon E3-1245 v2 |
| Motherboard | Asrock Z77 Pro-4m |
| PSU | Antec BP550 |
| RAM | Gskill Ripjaws X (32GB total) |
| HBA | LSI 9201-16i |
| HDD | Various |
| NIC | Intel Pro/1000 VT, Chelsio dual port 10G SFP+ |
| Extras | Norco 5 x 3.5″ HDD Cage |