As you said, RAID gives you a single unified storage pool from independent drives.

It also gives you some fail over if using RAID 6 with dual drive redundancy and hot fail over (which any modern RAID system has).

You can then divvy up the storage however you want. Single big drive with folders and file-system permissions, or split the pool into multiple logical drives, etc.

The world is your oyster.

For my needs I have a single big drive with folders, but only a single user on the RAID box has write permissions - and that’s an account from my file server.

The file server then handles shares, permissions, user names, etc, so I have a single point of user management and file access. Which isn’t really much different than what businesses typically do: storage management is separate from user/file management.

Lots of RAID systems today support LDAP, so you could theoretically manage user access on the RAID box, but I find that cumbersome, and prefer having a file server.

No backup with PiHole?

PiHole can run redundant if you want. Does Technitium do this differently? Or more easily?

Good lord, 114!

And here I thought I was doing something at 10-20 TB.

You go!

OP posted his numbers and you think you know better.

Bet you’re fun at parties.

OP has published his numbers and you still think you know better.

What a riot.

My primary purpose for separating services is stability.

My file server is just for file services - so if my media server needs a reboot it doesn’t affect anything else, like my media conversion server, etc.

Preventing lateral movement is really a secondary benefit. If someone gets in, my ability to prevent lateral movement as a non-enterprise is pretty limited.

I still use separate user accounts for different purposes with heavily restrictive permissions.

Oh, wow.

I had no idea jumpers predated on other sliders, and didn’t even notice the body size comparison.

Good work.

Tailscale should provide everything you need. Then you can use whatever remote desktop/management tools you want.

Diskprices.com

I find it gives me some ability to plan.

And that’s why these products are a non-started in the enterprise world.

Data management and security is an entire organization in these places.

This is it.

It’s about risk management. If you don’t have a vendor to provide measured performance criteria, you have no idea how it will perform.

Businesses are data-centric. Without that data, a product effectively doesn’t exist.

You forget the legal angle. That’s really what drives this stuff (and marketing).

Wow, off grid and you pull that much.

Impressive.

I’ve taken to taping up most of the vents on my boxes, then putting air conditioner filter media in front of the vents I leave open.

This controls the flow to only come through those vents, so they get filtered.

I clean the filters once a month - it’s nice that you can see them to know they need cleaning.

I do change the fans to more powerful ones, usually compressor style (what people call squirrel cage) because they handle airflow restriction better. The trick is how to orient and duct them.

Wow, yea, that’s bad, haha

Novell??

Holy cow that’s something I haven’t heard in forever.

I get mine from a link on diskprices.com

Usually lead to ebay or Amazon - I’m not particular.

They’re almost always used business drives. Oldest one is now 4 years running.

Edit: My major exclusion is SMR, since I’ll be using them in a NAS of some kind (hardware or Proxmox). Today I’m all SATA - if you can, go with SAS, drive costs are lower.

Businesses replace drives and systems on a schedule regardless of true wear on them - their risk vs cost metric is very different than ours.

So used business hardware is a great value for those of us who have a sunk cost in labor/expertise.

Most drives I’ve owned have run for 10+ years, while any business won’t run them past 5. I can take the risk of losing a drive, while it’s more important for a business to prevent losing a drive. Business disruption is a more costly event.

I’m not sure if that’s overstated, it’s news to me too. I’m aware of zinc as a skin-healing treatment, and it has a vasodilation effect through (I believe) topical application, so perhaps that’s being mis-stated (or that lends credence to promoting growth).

I did find this from a quick search.

The rabbit hole beckons - off I go.

Copper is a well-known anti-microbial.

DietPi is such a game changer.

Currently running it in a VM just for PiHole, and the ease of installing anything is nice.