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I just added a detailed dRAID overview to my OpenZFS guide. Be sure to scroll down to play with the js app that shows various dRAID layouts and how they get shuffled.

I'll add some details around that, thanks for the feedback!

Author here, good call, I'll add that today.

Good call... I'll prop it up on something soon. This is on the second floor of my house, so it's safe from flooding, but I'd hate to have spilled water kill my stuff.

Hah, I have no shame m0nkey! They're great videos. So the 9.10 FreeNAS GUI will have bhyve management stuff in it? Or did I misunderstand that?

Just replied to a similar comment below with: "I have this system sitting next to me in my home office which I share with my wife. Both of us work from home full time and the serve…

I have this system sitting next to me in my home office which I share with my wife. Both of us work from home full time and the server is quiet enough that she doesn't complain abo…

I guess that's the downside. It only syncs the latest version of every file it syncs.

Because I've never done this before and I wanted a more manageable learning curve. I had very little *nix experience and zero bsd or zfs experience before I started this project. M…

Hah, thanks. Galapagos is an amazing spot for wildlife photography.

36T to CrashPlan sits on 36GB of RAM at all times... screw that. rclone never uses more than ~2GB to manage my whole 50TB dataset. edit: Also, I'm using a SuperMicro chassis, not a…

BackBlaze B2 is probably the lowest price S3-like cloud provider and for 50TB (my current dataset size), it would be ~$250/mo: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.ht…

If you really don't want to go over ethernet (and I'm assuming fiber is out of the question, too), there aren't really any great methods to automate this process. If you don't want…

I'm glad to hear it! I've had a ton of fun working on it, but just know that FreeNAS is a slippery and expensive slope!

Enterprise Edition, baby! It's an official variant. By the way, if anyone is considering deploying their own LackRack, I would highly recommend reading the installation section in …

how the fuck does a metal box fail?

Nope, never considered low power. I really didn't want a CPU bottleneck when I move to 10Gb network interface. Running a NAS in a VM (at least FreeNAS) is highly discouraged, so I …

I'm glad you think so. I also found it was extremely difficult to find a thorough explanation of the types of overhead I described, so I wanted to get it all together in one place.…

(I meant to reply to you several hours ago, but HN wasn't letting me post comments for some reason...) I've got rclone set up to encrypt and upload everything to ACD. There's a sec…

It'll saturate a 1Gb link, obviously. I've been eyeing 10Gb configurations for a while, that will be my next upgrade. I'd really like to stick with copper so I can wire the whole h…

Oh, it's totally overkill, but I don't have any regrets. I have a couple VMs that can sit on a lot of CPU time when they're in active use.

rclone/crypt to amazon cloud drive (acd)

I might get that new consumer-grade switch with 10GbE copper, but that's down the road a bit.

Sits at about 250W, goes up to ~300W when it's running a scrub or something.