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Currently my backup solution consists in quite a few heterogeneous 2.5'' drives ransacked from laptops or simple external use ones; I do not trust this option and want to reduce the number of drives as well as use ZFS replycation in order to assure the integrity of my data: I want to trust my cold (offsite) backup!
Currently, the maximum usable space of my data pool is [less then] 5TB; I want to have at least 3 TB of space in this drive, and I was thinking of increasing the copies parameter in order to increase the resiliency of this extreme solution (btw, haven't actually verified this is compatible with zfs replication), so at least 6 TB.
The question is, which drive should I buy? Assuming SMR is plague, should I just buy a standard NAS drive since from a brief search it appears the only drives of such sizes that use CMR are NAS lines? I plan to put it into a 3.5'' enclosure with a USB adapter and manually import and export the pool monthly.
Have I missed something? Are there better alternatives? Please do note that I do not have the option of a second machine as offsite replication target, and the prices for online zfs storage make my sweat.
Currently, the maximum usable space of my data pool is [less then] 5TB; I want to have at least 3 TB of space in this drive, and I was thinking of increasing the copies parameter in order to increase the resiliency of this extreme solution (btw, haven't actually verified this is compatible with zfs replication), so at least 6 TB.
The question is, which drive should I buy? Assuming SMR is plague, should I just buy a standard NAS drive since from a brief search it appears the only drives of such sizes that use CMR are NAS lines? I plan to put it into a 3.5'' enclosure with a USB adapter and manually import and export the pool monthly.
Have I missed something? Are there better alternatives? Please do note that I do not have the option of a second machine as offsite replication target, and the prices for online zfs storage make my sweat.