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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • I run my Truenas Scale with 5 mirror vdevs. This is sort of like raid 10 (I don’t need the differences explained to me). This means that I get 50% of the raw storage as usable but, it means that to upgrade space, I only need to upgrade two drives at a time. It also means that replacing a failed drive is fast, much faster than replacing a drive from a raidz* vdev. As you move to Truenas, this is something to consider. Given that you’re going to have 4 drives total, I don’t think you’d be wasting any additional space as you shouldn’t consider raidz safe (same problem as raid 5, high risk of second drive failure during rebuild) which leaves you at raidz2.





  • There are multiple ways to evaluate usage. I’ll go with what I would guess is your desired measurement, things that I use intentionally (as opposed to things like dns, which just happen incidentally to other things or automation based things which are continuously running but not necessarily interacted with):

    1. Mastodon
    2. An app I’ve written to collect personal data
    3. Jellyfin
    4. Lemmy
    5. Bitwarden (I pay to self-host as opposed to vaultwarden as the latter probably won’t have a security audit)
    6. Freshrss
    7. Linkding
    8. Gitea
    9. Archivebox
    10. Mailcow