Thinking of switching from a 4 bay hardware RAID 5 to an 8 bay JBOD. Looking for opinions.

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  • mergerfs

    a featureful union filesystem

  • I myself prescribe to the teachings of the IronicBadger(Alex Kretzshmar) from the Self-Hosted podcast and (when I get one setup) intend to follow the guides on his site https://perfectmediaserver.com and use mergerfs to turn a JBOD to a single filesystem and use SnapRAID for redundancy.

  • snapraid

    A backup program for disk arrays. It stores parity information of your data and it recovers from up to six disk failures

  • I myself prescribe to the teachings of the IronicBadger(Alex Kretzshmar) from the Self-Hosted podcast and (when I get one setup) intend to follow the guides on his site https://perfectmediaserver.com and use mergerfs to turn a JBOD to a single filesystem and use SnapRAID for redundancy.

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  • pms-wiki

    The aim is to share knowledge and information about building an open-source media server.

  • I myself prescribe to the teachings of the IronicBadger(Alex Kretzshmar) from the Self-Hosted podcast and (when I get one setup) intend to follow the guides on his site https://perfectmediaserver.com and use mergerfs to turn a JBOD to a single filesystem and use SnapRAID for redundancy.

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