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  • mrmaplebar@fedia.iotoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server
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    3 days ago

    I think that sounds pretty solid to me. Realistically you should count on having 3x drives for your important data:

    1. The main data drive(s)
    2. Drive(s) for redundancy, mirroring the data drives. (I use btrfs RAID1 for this.).
    3. Offline local hard drive(s) that you keep somewhere relatively safe that you occasionally backup to.
    4. (Optionally) Some kind of offsite backup.

    So if you plan on having 2TB of data, you’ll ideally want 3x 2TB drives. 2 in the PC mirroring eachother, and 1 in a closet or safe that you plug in and backup to a few times per year. (With bonus points if you can get another 2TB of off site or cloud storage to also backup to, in case of catastrophy.)

    As for how you build it, I think it doesn’t matter too much. Its possible to use whatever random spare PC parts you have to make a decent home server, imo. A lot of people on YouTube and Reddit have all kinds of fancy servers in a rack, but an old repurposed desktop can be fine. ( I would probably use new, decent quality drives though.)