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SnapRAID: Protect Home Lab Storage from Drive Failure Learn how to protect your mergerfs storage pool from drive failure using SnapRAID with parity, automated sync, and full drive recovery.

SnapRAID protects your mergerfs storage pool by calculating parity across all your data drives

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Had a disk going read-only on me yesterday. I started getting SMART errors back in September but never got around to get a replacement.
I felt confident though, since I run #snapraid I would just restore the failed disk from the parity once it failed. However, once I replaces the disk and ran […]

Master the Basics - How to Install and Use SnapRAID for a Resilient Home Media Server Imagine this: You’ve spent years building your perfect media collection. Movies, TV shows, Music, and personal backups are neatly stored across multiple hard drives. Then one day, you hear the dreaded...

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MergerFS: the step child of file systems. ZFS gets all the attention now a days.

However, for a media server I feel like there is no better solution than MergerFS.

Grab any size hard drive, pop it in and add it to the pool.

Need redundancy? Bolt on SnapRAID. 🔧

#MediaServer #MergerFS #SnapRAID

Love my media server but I really need to get my storage sorted out. The drive Hokey Pokey to get the library drives mounted has officially gotten old. It’s just such a daunting project to transition & I think I need new hardware to boot. Bah. #homelab #jellyfin #mergerfs #snapraid

SMART HDD report showing 3 reallocated sectors and 112 pending sectors.

TestDisk status: 923 files copied from failing disk, 0 failed.

Welp. Looks like it's time to test GoHardDrive's warranty process. This drive's toast (or close to it).

Currently using TestDisk to transfer as much as I can to another drive. (I also have the SnapRAID parity to rebuild off from)

#homelab #SnapRAID #OpenMediaVault

Original post on mastodon.rxbrad.com

Apparently #SnapRAID syncs are supposed to be fast.

#Radarr & #Sonarr update my media timestamps with the original airdate on every rescan.

In doing so, a time with an exact-zero nanoseconds is used. SnapRAID hates this, and nudges you to use `snapraid touch` to apply a random nonzero […]

Original post on mastodon.rxbrad.com

Bought a MediaSonic PROBOX 4-bay enclosure and one of those 12TB refurb enterprise HGST Ultrastar HDDs from GoHardDrive.

Starting slow. But I think I'll buy a couple more of those HDDs soon and spin up some #SnapRAID for my developing #Plex hoarding problem.

And to think, I only had 1.5TB on […]