On 05/06/2020 05:24, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-devops wrote:
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> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 05:14, Phillip Smith via arch-devops
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>     On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 12:19, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-devops
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>         I'll reiterate the suggestion I made before: Let's get an SX62
>         and never worry about the archive space again. It's 10€ more. If
>         we want to get it fast, we'll have to order it from the Helsinki
>         location as we can expect long waiting times right now in their
>         German locations (up to 10 workdays for the SX62 according to
>         them). With your AX51 suggestion, we'll have an effective 8TB
>         (RAID1) for 54€/m (Helsinki location) but with the SX62 we'll
>         have an effective 30TB (RAID5) for 64€/m (Helsinki location). It
>         seems like a much better bang for the buck to me.
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>     A 30tb RAID5 is terrifying to my mind.
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> We can make it RAID6 but we'll have backups anyway.

Softraid or btrfs raid? I guess Phillipe's concern is the downtime when
replacing a faulty disk and rebuilding the array? And since this will
host dbscripts it's critical infrastructure.