So as alluded to in a previous post, I had a drive crash and it left me feeling a bit shaky about the other three drives that are in the array, one more goes and the system is gone. Not thrilled with the thought of that so I blew $320 and got 4 SATA Seagate 4 TB drives. While I was thrilled with the SAS drives, the price and obscurity makes them not good for what I’m looking for.

The new drives are actually new so 5 year warranty so I figure my Linux server should be good until 2026:) Need to look into getting some more RAM, I’m at 16Gb but would rather be at 32, that will probably be the last thing I do for this iteration of the server.