Re: array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread David Christensen
On 3/21/25 12:32, Eben King wrote: I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers.  It holds a backup. It's starting to become too small, not because it's shrinking, but because I'm getting more stuff.  So, I need to do something that ends up with a larger array using 3, maybe 4 disks.  It'd

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread Dan Ritter
Will Mengarini wrote: > Hmm, what consumer-level motherboard supports > more than 2 NVMe drives? Or are you using SATA? Pretty much all of them, assuming you have a PCIe slot available and a cheap adapter card. 1, 2, and 4 M.2 slots on a card are all easy to find. (Cheap: $45 for a 4 x M.2 PCIe

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 03:32:39PM -0400, Eben King wrote: > I need to do something that ends up with a larger array using 3, maybe > 4 disks. It'd be nice if it supports disks of disparate sizes (and > actually uses the extra space), so I can upgrade by attrition. It depends on how wedded y

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread Boyan Penkov
If someone who has a firm grasp of the current state of btrfs vs bcachefs for "power users who still need to get stuff other than 'administrativia' done" would speak up, I'd be glad for some perspective as well... Cheers! On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 15:33 Eben King wrote: > I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 arra

array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread Eben King
I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds a backup. It's starting to become too small, not because it's shrinking, but because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to do something that ends up with a larger array using 3, maybe 4 disks. It'd be nice if it supports disks of disp

Re: confusing printer definitions

2025-03-21 Thread Arbol One
I had a lot of printer problems too when I first install Debian, version 10 at the time. One day I did the following and all my printer problems were resolved : *sudo apt install printer-driver-all -y* I hope this also resolved your issues with the printer. Please note that I am not an expert

Re: libsmbios/smbios-utils removed from Debian?

2025-03-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Václav Ovsík wrote: > I hope some alternative for friendly displaying the information will > appear soon. Well, firstly this would need one of more developers for the upstream project, who would just need to be sufficiently skilled programmers. Secondly this project would need to find a Debia