https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/tags/storage.htmlHugoen-ie2026 Tiernan OTooleFri, 10 Jul 2026 23:30:52 +0100https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/04/17/day-61-of-100daysofhomelab-swapping-disks-in-a-hetzner-dedicated-machine.htmlMon, 17 Apr 2023 13:22:47 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/04/17/day-61-of-100daysofhomelab-swapping-disks-in-a-hetzner-dedicated-machine.htmlIt’s been a while… So, for Day 61 of #100daysofhomelab, I thought I should write up how to swap a disk in a Hetzner Dedicated Machine. I have a dedicated server I rent from Hetzner in Germany. It has an Xeon E5-1650 V2 processor (6 cores, 12 threads, 3.5Gz base, 3.9Gz turbo), 128Gb RAM, and a pretty impressive 15 6Tb HDD. All drives are hooked to a Mega RAID controller, but because I am running ProxMox, I left it in JBOD mode and set up the 15 drives in RAIDZ-2. All 15 drives are in a single pool (probably not ideal, but it works for me). Now and again, I get a message from ProxMox telling me about bad blocks… and every time it happens, I have to remember what to do to find the bad drive, report it to Hetzner, wait for them to replace the drive and then add it back to the pool… Today, it happened, so I thought I better document it, to help future me, and hopefully someone else out there…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/15/day-56-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlWed, 15 Mar 2023 22:57:54 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/15/day-56-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 56 of #100daysofhomelab and I managed to fix some stuff with my TrueNAS box. There was lots of messing when it came to permissions, but it works now. Some speeds are below. Not quite getting the speeds I was expecting, but there I have not tweaked anything, yet… This is going from my MacBook Pro with a 10Gb adapter. The reads are quite good, but the writes… well, the HDDs are FASTER than the NVMe… No idea why… I did get a new card to add another 4 NVMe drives in… We’ll see what happens when that gets built.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/12/day-54-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlSun, 12 Mar 2023 02:27:35 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/12/day-54-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 54 of #100daysofhomelab and it’s going to be a very quick one… My head is wrecked with TrueNAS… Swapped TrueNAS Core (FreeBSD) to TrueNAS Scale (Linux). Trying to get Resilio Sync to work on it, but getting permissions issues… It’s after 2 am here, so giving up for the moment, but hopefully, I can figure it out tomorrow… On a different note, I ordered a load of storage upgrades (Another Hyper M.2 x16 card, some new NVMe drives, and some other stuff) for GodBoxV3… More details soon…https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/07/zfs-over-multiple-dvd-bd-r-images.htmlTue, 07 Mar 2023 09:42:46 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/07/zfs-over-multiple-dvd-bd-r-images.htmlA couple of days back, I started thinking about archiving and backup software. I kind of have backups “sorted”, with my MacBook Pro using BackBlaze to backup to the cloud, Time Machine backing it up to my Synology, my VMs on Proxmox being backed up to Proxmox Backup Server off-site, my Synology and QNAPs being backup to B2 and Hetzner and some other bits and bobs… But for the Archiving stuff, I am not really set up… So, I went looking for archiving software. Couldn’t find anything, so asked on r/DataHoarder. Still no options, at the time of posting, but someone did reply with the idea of using DVDs (or Blu Rays) for ZFS...https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/02/day-50-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlThu, 02 Mar 2023 21:50:46 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/03/02/day-50-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 50 of #100daysofhomelab (this was stuck in a draft folder, so this is a couple of weeks old… I decided to recycle this as day 50, but it was originally day 37 or something…). Just about 13 days ago: After running ZFS on my Mac for a few hours, I removed it and installed a trial of the SoftRAID software. I am not sure what was going on, but with ZFS installed, my machine just kept crashing. less than an hour and bang. So, I installed SoftRAID, and the speed ok. Not massive speeds, but not 100% sure I am using the right cables. More testing with cables soon.But in reality, this is software RAID 5 over 5 spinning disks. 270Mb/s read ain’t bad. 115Mb/s write ain’t great, but it’s RAID 5.https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/07/day-36-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlTue, 07 Feb 2023 21:39:16 +0000https://www.tiernanotoole.ie/2023/02/07/day-36-of-100daysofhomelab.htmlDay 36 of #100daysofhomelab and after yesterday’s post about RAID 10 on my external array, I found ZFS on OSX, and well, now I have a ZFS RAIDZ pool setup. It is showing as around 28.8Tb usable space, and so far, so good. Other than that, I have been looking into Ubuntu Landscape to monitor my Ubuntu fleet of machines. If you host it in-house, you get 10 machines for free, so hopefully, that’s enough for me to start with. I am working on getting it running on 22.04, using these beta install steps. RB5009 install is still pending. keep hitting stupid blocks stopping me from doing it, but hopefully this week.