bit-rot

I am somewhat of a data hoarder. But recently I filled my 40TB NAS. It is mostly video and blender files from animation work I do. I am considering some different methods for archive purposes. I have looked into tape a little bit, but it seems like an expensive option for a home user. I also...

To my surprise LVM mdadm does actually seem to be able to save extra checksum-data to prevent bit-rot/soft corruption. Until now I thought the only way was to go e.g. btrfs or sfz. But I just ran into this article over at RHEL: Using DM integrity with RAID LV Together with thin LVM snapshots...

Hello Everybody, I have succesfully installed my FreeNAS Server and now I just want to be sure if it is fully operational and functions… I first wanted to check if ECC is really working so I did DmiDecode in the FreeNAS terminal. It showed me for my RAM that there is a total Bandwidth of 72 and...

In this thread, I posted pics of my recently-rebuilt home server. Now that the hardware part is done (maybe?), I'm thinking it's time to revisit the OS/software side. So I'm soliciting feedback. I don't think anything is really broken, but mostly non-optimal due to having grown up...