[arch-devops] Diskspace getting low on orion or let's get a bigger archive server

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 10:35, Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:

> On 05/06/2020 05:24, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-devops wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 05:14, Phillip Smith via arch-devops
> > <arch-devops at lists.archlinux.org
> > <mailto:arch-devops at lists.archlinux.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 12:19, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-devops
> >     <arch-devops at lists.archlinux.org
> >     <mailto:arch-devops at lists.archlinux.org>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >         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.
> >
> >
> >     A 30tb RAID5 is terrifying to my mind.
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>
FYI I ordered a SX62 in Falkenstein. We'll slap a RAID6 on it and that's
that.
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