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Yeah definitely wanting the redundancy, most of what I will be storing will not be life changing if lost just a big inconvenience, and for the life changing stuff I plan on having it backed up to cloud storage.

That is a good point about stress testing them, if memory serves me well I believe one of the 12TB would disconnect a while back maybe 2 or so years ago when I was using windows and doing large backups. I think the consensus around seems to just mirror the 6TB and mirror the 12TB drives separate, it’s probably what I will end up doing since in the end I am tripling the amount of storage and really allowing me to lose two drives albeit two different drives before data loss. Feel I may be getting a bit greedy with what I have and should just be happy with what I am getting with that. Looking at getting an upgrade in about a year or two either way.

That’s definitely I have to look into, the nixos page on ZFS had a link to a ZFS cheat sheet of sorts that I have been trying to wrap my head around, thanks for pointing it out though.

Thank you for that will have to have a look into it since I am quite new and I am not completely sure how to go about things in a way to not regret it later down the line in half a year or so.

Thank you for all that information, I plan on using it weekly but don’t know if I would really end up using it daily. Might have to consider the laser route for now and get my A3 printing done somewhere else for the time being. It really does look like a more consumer friendly printer than the majority I have been looking into.

I sort of felt like that, currently have a brother laser printer I bought second hand. Prints very nicely and quickly but the tonner cannot be replaced easily, and seems to be a lot of work, need to buy another cartridge with a reset wheel, blow it out with a compressor. I can wear a mask and do all that but I have seen some information about needing to replace the chip on the cart as well. Also the current one only prints in A4. Just really wanting a printer that prints and that I can have replacement consumables on hand and not need to buy a tonner that costs half as much as the printer.