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  • recover data from unfunctioned remaining RAID disks due to RAID controller failure

    In this case, you need a new RAID controller of similar type.

    Can I even simply attach one of the RAID 1 disk to the desktop system

    No. One disk out of a RAID array is different from a normal disk.

    Recovery becomes easy if you do not use a hardware RAID controller, but a ZFS software RAID instead. It does nearly all automatically. But you need to do a little more reading tutorials for the first setup.













  • better to pass the individual disks through to the VM and manage the zpool from there?

    That’s what I do.

    I like it better this way, because less dependencies.

    Proxmox boots from it’s own SSD, the VM that provides the NAS lives there, too.

    The zpool (consisting of 5 good old harddisks) can be easily plugged somewhere else if needed, and it carries the data of the NAS, but nothing else. I can rebuild the proxmox base, I can reinstall that VM, they all do not affect each other.





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    2 months ago

    I have 3 separate machines:

    1. That fat home server with NAS and VM’s etc.

    2. A Pi serving my smart home.

    3. A plastic router with OpenWrt doing DNS and (I like to believe) some security, and giving WiFi to many small devices.

    They all run 24/7 but I just don’t want everything to be dead and dark when one machine is down for whatever reason.


  • This will be the spec for my next server. The current one is smaller, and several years old

    I have several different requirements for my server, for example, my son does video editing and needs lots of storage. I want to experiment with more VM’s and containers, therefore RAM and threads.

    Do you think people just beginning could get buy on 4 cores and 8 GB RAM for a while?

    For most people I think they just want to have some NAS and a reliable machine. But please grant them 16 GB, otherwise they would ask why their laptop has so much more than their server :-)