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These are two good articles:

This one shows why SMR has a bad reputation:
https://create.pro/why-the-dat…our-hdd-could-be-at-risk/

This one indicates that SMR is probably OK for your application:
https://www.ionos.com/digitalg…d-magnetic-recording-smr/

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I use btrfs. btrfs snapshots will do what you want, but it will take a bit of effort to set up the scripting required to do this (a bit of googling will find what is required). I would suggest using rsnapshot on the client machine, or if you have several…

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Listen... I have no idea what you're talking about at this point. You seem to want the whole forum to move to github, which has been explained to you multiple times is not practical. You seem to think we need a ton of mods for this…

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Yes. It’s the box I put OMV on.

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Actually I started with 4 x 2TB in raid5, and then lost a drive. I opted to add a 6TB drive, and raid1 and raid5 in this configuration both proved 6TB storage, so I went with raid1. I wasn't worried about performance, but I like the…

You can put these 3 drives in a btrfs raid1 array which will give you a total storage of 512 GB. There is a recent conversation about this at:

RE: Any roadblocks I should be aware of prior to trying to partition the drive(s) & setup a btrfs on seperate…

A couple of other things with btrfs I find useful. I run two daily cron jobs as root:

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which gives a mailout of:

Label: 'BTRFS1' uuid: 3c116019-c3d4-46f4-856c-cd624761c77e
Total devices 4 FS bytes used 3.39TiB
devid 2 size 1.82TiB used…

One thing to keep in mind about btrfs RAID5, you can have an unrecoverable failure if two things happen at the exact same time: power failure and disk failure. Probably nothing to worry about, especially if you use a UPS.

Useful tools for maintenance can…

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As long as you include a label the btrfs drive will show up in the filesystems window (may require a reboot before showing up) and in any pull downs for creating shares. It will not show up in the raid management window.

btrfs can be…

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