Ok, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to get #RAID configured on my #lenovo #ThinkPad #P70 - to no success.

I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCC1NGe8a8&t=36s of the similar #p50 and configuring #RAID which shows the #BIOS interface but my P70's only show the "non-raid physical discs" I do not have an option for RAID volumes. Note I have upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version on lenovo's web site. Any thoughts?

I have attached 2 #screenshots of what the BIOS displays - I'm trying to configure the RAID on the two 512GB #NVMe sticks.

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I have an old #NAS - #Synology DS214se, with two HDDs in RAID mode. It is 10 years old, and unfortunately, it cannot run #Docker. So, I mostly use it as a Samba shared disk. I want to find something new to replace it, and I'm open to exploring options beyond Synology. I haven't kept up with changes in hardware, but I need something with #RAID. Regarding software, it would be good to have something based on classic #Linux, but it's not critical. Any suggestions?

With this new NAS comes some new choices, and I'd love thoughts on this.

I have 5 large (14tb) HHDs and 2 3tb SSDs.

The NAS's main use is as a home storage server, mostly to store movies for use with another machine running Jellyfin. There's a secondary use for backups. That means I don't need super fast access and I don't have lots of small files (except for the backups).

Most of what the server will be doing is reading large, sequential data in the movie files. Even if there are two, or three simultaneous users, they'll be network IO bound anyway.

I'm worried about storage failure, but I think ZRAID2 across all 5 drives with no spares is okay. If two of the five drives fail, I canshut the entire thing down until I can get a replacement drive.

I don't seem to have a strong need for using the drives for Log, Read Cache, or Metadata, but I should use them for *something*.

Does anyone have thoughts on this? What's the best use for these two drives?

#ZFS
#RAID

nearly forgot to post this time's torment clear. This was my first torment HOD. 3t clear, could be better.

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@marcan Well, #ZFS and #Ceph have entirely different use-cases and original designs.

• Ceph, like #HAMMER & #HAMMER2 was specifically designed to be a #cluster #filesystem, whereas ZFS & #btrfs are designed for single-device, local storage options.

• OFC I did see and even setup some "cursed" stuff like Ceph on ZFS myself, and yes, that is a real deployment run by a real corporation in production...

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/solution-ceph-on-zfs.98437/

Still less #cursed than what a predecessor of mine once did and deploy ZFS on a Hardware-#RAID-Controller!