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title: First Upgrade
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description: Upgrade to the cluster
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date: 2026-04-29
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slug: upgrade
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Today, I upgraded the cluster's RAM from 16GB to 48GB. I also added a new 8TB HDD.
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I do have a small issue: all the media and miscellaneous files on the original HDD were stored in a Proxmox virtual .qcow disk image, which is essentially just a file that all the other containers on the Proxmox host were mounted to. With this new disk, I created a ZFS filesystem.
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ZFS is excellent for servers. It offers many useful features, such as on-the-fly compression and decompression, and it's very straightforward to add new drives to a ZFS pool.
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Currently, I'm copying all the files from the old virtual .qcow disk image onto the new ZFS filesystem I created on the new drive. Once that's done, I'll wipe the old disk and add it to the ZFS pool.
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For now, it'll be configured as RAID0. Since these disks are relatively new, I might consider switching to RAID5 in the distant future (around 3 years from now). I think that should be straightforward, right?
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Anyway, see ya! |