diff --git a/content/posts/server-build.md b/content/posts/server-build.md index 9cef2d5..8a83cc6 100644 --- a/content/posts/server-build.md +++ b/content/posts/server-build.md @@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ date: 2022-10-31T17:00:00+11:00 draft: false showSummary: true summary: "We've wanted to build a home lab for a long time. Here's how it went." +series: + - "Home Server Build-Out" +series_order: 1 --- # Part One: Specification @@ -11,6 +14,7 @@ summary: "We've wanted to build a home lab for a long time. Here's how it went." ## Background We've wanted to build a home lab for a long, long time, but never got around to it. + **(Selene)** However, a certain someone was complaining about disaster recovery and migrating workloads to us, and that turned out to be just the push we needed to get this rolling. @@ -127,6 +131,10 @@ good random IO performance, and not too expensive. Two of these sets us back 600 Our final storage array consists of 12 ✕ 16 TB Seagate Exos Drives, and 2 ✕ 500GB Seagate FireCuda 530s. With 8 data slices, 3 parity slices, and 1 hot spare slice, we should end up with approximately 110 TB of usable space. +{{< alert >}} +**(Ashe)** It is worth mentioning here that dRAID does not allow for variable stripe width due to how sequential +resilvering works, so compression ratios and real vs on-disk utilisation may suffer. +{{< /alert >}} ### The CPU We're going to make an executive decision and go with an AMD EPYC CPU, because we've always wanted to use one. That said, we have a few options: