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submitted 3 months ago by Campers@lemmy.world to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

I am trying to plan my home lab to satisfy two different needs:

  1. I want a stable environment where I will put a relatively expensive NAS and maybe some other Zima boards.
  2. I also want to try new versions and configurations in an env where I can break stuff BEFORE trying things on my Production environment. I would also like to use that environment to try other things like playing with Kubernetes, Docker, Iceberg, etc. I am a backend software engineer so this is very useful to me. Besides being fun.

So, I am just trying to gather ideas on how to configure this both in terms of software and hardware.

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[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

cheaper NAS by the same company
populate it with only 1-2 drives

[-] Campers@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Good point. I need to consider doing this to make troubleshooting easier.

Also curious if someone had any RAID related issues. Which you will not catch with a 1 or 2 disk NAS since you cannot have RAID 5 there.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Seems pretty unlikely that any testing would depend on the RAID level. That should be transparent to 99% of things you’d do. But you should be able to predict when it does affect something.

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