Except for writing speed

when you say you had second disks fail during rebuild

did you ever scrub your arrays

hmmm

Nvm I misread

Did you ever = yes
How often = not enough

Still I wouldn't risk it

raidz3

or gtfo

yeah let me just throw 24 TB away

I'm still for Raid6 here

so I need another server to backup my server?
are synology servers as trash as I think they are?

synology is overpriced hardware with a shitty UI

Yep

but it works if you dont want to fuck around

yes and yes

And a shitty UI

i meant ui not io lol

You could just encrypt your entire NAS and put it on Azure archive storage. They're a few $/tb as long as you don't access it @futuremoe

That's basically storage tape as a service

azure is €0,0017 per GB, aws is €0,004 per GB

cold storage

Cheap af but takes a day to access. Tho I would encrypt everything before uploading it because it's Microsoft

Yeah that's 1.75€/TB

but you pay out the ass for data retrieval

Yes but that's just for emergency

I think it's ok for backups

Let's say you need it once every 3-4 years

archive storage is fine. what's the difference between hot/cold?

Hot = expensive to store, cheap to access
Cold = cheap to store, expensive to acceas

Hot is for your little files that you need every day, cold is for backups

and archive is cool on steroids?

Yes

Iirc the cheapest plan of azure for archiving has one day of latency to access a file

it would be 10 € a month for 5TB archive

Like, you have to request a day in advance

that's fine it's mostly my blu ray rips

I doubt it's going to cost that much but I can't check rn

I'm not paying that much

first 50tb azure archive is €0.0019 per GB a month

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