Aron's Tech Blog

Apologies for the site being offline from 2/13 – 2/18. The storage array needed to be changed over.
Short story: Hard drive crashed.
Long story: Back in 5/20, I found WD SAS 3TB drives on newegg for like $50 apiece and got a dell H310 raid card for $25 and set my Linux server up with 4 of those bad boys in a RAID 5 array. Turns out the drives were used which brings me to the moral of the story never buy from TDT Technologies on NewEgg.com. So I had one drive fail about 6 months ago and I knew it was a matter of time before another was going to die so I ordered 4 new Seagate 4TB SATA drives and the cables to hook into the H310 and went about my merry way until Sunday 2/13 when I lost the 2nd SAS drive and all was lost. Well not really as the system was rsynced with the NAS so no biggie, I had the data.
Now I’ve been with Fedora since Fedora was spun off from RedHat a billion or so years ago in computer time. I love Fedora and my last build I was tempted to move to CentOS but couldn’t get it to run with the hardware so Fedora to the rescue and Fedora it was. But now thanks to the CentOS debacle RedHat is now giving RHEL subscriptions to folks like me that only use one server and don’t make any money off of. So now I’ve got just under 11TB worth of space on my array with new drives in a RAID 5 configuration running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5!!! This is a huge win because I wanted to get certified in RHEL and now I’ve got a box to work with and it’s long term support. And I’ve learned a bunch to be able to convert my Fedora rsync backups to the RHEL OS.