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Start googling. Hardware or Software based? How techy are you? RAID should not be considered for backup. Think of it as an individual drive. Still needs a backup. Personally I use a ZFS pool in my Linux homelab that's been rock solid. However the pucker factor would be high if a drive fails.
Depends on how you set them up. There are calculators online that can estimate this for you.
I used NAS drives bc they're expected to be spinning a lot.
No. You will see better performance on average compared to your slowest drive.
I have no relevant experience with specific hardware. For a general base of knowledge figure out what RAID type you want to use. Look at what ZFS or btrfs can do in this space. Same for unraid.
I use a ZFS pool for my home stuff too.
To minimize the pucker factor, I have an extra drive of the same capacity and I rotate through them in the mirror pool.
It makes good practice replacing and resilvering drives and since it's a mirror it's also kind of an offline backup.
Also, I had bought the initial drives at the same time and figured rotating though them would minimize the odds of failing around the same time.
I'm much less wary of the whole thing now that I've resilvered the drives several times.
That's a really great idea. I know at least 2 of the drives are from the same batch so it would be good to rotate things in and out. Thanks!
Yea, if anything it makes good practice.
Swapping hard drives in the larger data pool isn't as daunting anymore.
Although, I gotta be honest, swapping drives in the zpool from which proxmox boots itself is still a bit iffy to me.
I had to set a reminder, because otherwise I won't do it often enough.