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I don’t know why this specific thing is so common on Lemmy though, I don’t think it happened in reddit.

When you’re used to knowing a lot relative to the people around you, learning to listen sometimes becomes optional.

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Fuck MS Word tho, no?

Have you ever turned off an electric motor before?

How are you going to stop the blade, though? That’s the part that is difficult.

Do you take everything personally?

The folks doin the crime are the last people you’ll see wearing masks.

How would you build it?

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Where did you “add to the conversation”?

Definitely isn’t necessary, but if you search for ‘3.5" SAS lot’ on ebay you might find all the drives you’ll need to get to 50TB for the price of a couple new SATA drives.

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Yeah, you don’t want a surveillance drive. They are optimized for continuous writes, not random IO.

It’s probably worth familiarizing yourself with the difference between CMR and SMR drives.

If you expect this to keep growing, it might make sense to switch to SAS now - then you can find some really cheap enterprise class drives on ebay that will perform a bit better in this type of configuration. You’d just need a cheap HBA (like a 9211-8i) and a couple breakout cables. You can use SATA drives with a SAS HBA, but not the other way around.

SSD RAID is actually very common outside of home use! And yeah, clustered filesystems help overcome many of these limitations, but tend to be extremely demanding (expensive hardware for comparable performance). Network almost immediately becomes the bottleneck. Even forgetting about latency and other network efficiency concerns, 100 Gbps isn’t that fast when you have individual devices approaching 16 Gbps.

“Mid-range systems” is not referring to personal computers. “8-inch drives” is another clue.

I think you might be off by a few years at least, a 40MB drive in 1982 would’ve been incredibly uncommon.

From the technical sense it doesn’t have to have 4 drives

Please explain how you think you can distribute two sets of parity data across a three drive array?

You can’t have a three drive RAID 6 array.

Please just stop.

You are not ready to be lecturing on this topic.