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  • Pulling around 200W on average.

    • 100W for the server. Xeon E3-1231v3 with 8 spinning disks + HBA, couple of sata SSD’s
    • ~80W for the unifi PoE 48 Pro switch. Most of this is PoE power for half a dozen cameras, downstream switches and AP’s, and a couple of raspberry pi’s
    • ~20W for protectli vault running Opnsense
    • Total usage measured via Eaton UPS
    • Subsidised during the day with solar power (Enphase)
    • Tracked in home assistant

  • thumdinger@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHelp me decide?!
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    6 days ago

    For storage redundancy RAID 5 is not recommended, particularly as you get to high capacity drives (think >8TB). I think the rating to consider is URE (unrecoverable read error, usually 1 in 10^14 bits read).

    Once a drive inevitably fails and you are forced to resilver the array to avoid data loss. During the resilver the healthy disks are running at 100%, reading every bit of data they have to complete the parity calculation and determine what data is missing. The chances of encountering a URE on another drive is a near certainty at high capacities as the total number of bits read exceeds the URE rating. As result the resilver would fail and the array would be lost.

    RAID 6 as a minimum (2 drive redundancy), although a popular option now (and the layout I use) is mirrored vdevs.

    Edit: Consider TrueNAS for NAS software. I have been using it for 10 years and it is absolutely rock solid. 25TB usable storage across 4x mirrored vdevs. I run it as a VM inside Proxmox with 4 logical cores on a 10 year old Xeon with 16GB RAM for the VM (I run ECC as was recommended at the time, but whether it’s still considered necessary I’m not certain).

    I would also recommend getting an LSI HBA (host bus adapter) like the 9207-8i flashed to IT mode (it must not be in raid mode, let TrueNAS manage the disks directly). This simplifies passing through all the disks to a VM.