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I recently got a few (5) hard drives to turn my home server into a NAS with trueNAS scale and my idea is to have 4 usable and 1 for redundancy, my question is... How does RAID work, like what is RAID 0, RAID 5, software RAID etc, and does any of that even matter for my use case?

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[–] ares35@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

smr drives are horrible. we have some here. some by accident, others for cost savings (used only for long term, large file storage)--but all of smr's faults are really not worth it.. maybe at half the price per tb it might be--for some use cases, but not at current pricing.

the last batch we got in don't even support trim, so i guess the only way to 'clean up' zones is to literally dump everything off, secure_erase them, and 'start over'.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

TRIM is SSD technology and SMR is spinning-disk technology, you wouldn't find them on the same drive, would you? 🤔 Or do you mean a hybrid drive?