I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I’m planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively.

I would like to RAID them so that one drive dying doesn’t lose any of my media, and I was leaning towards Ubuntu server as an OS. I’m not sure how to do that, and I’m kind of poking around for info and advice. Hit me with it.

  • n2burns
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    8 months ago

    Is HBA mode that rare? It seems pretty common. Either way, we don’t know OP’s hardware.

    And I’m not scared of RAID controller failure, I’m scared of single point failure. I know it’s highly unlikely, but the risk for stranded data is unacceptable IMHO unless you’re recommending OP make sure they have a spare on hand.

    Also, I never even mentioned ZFS (I’ve actually never even used it).