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by willglynn 877 days ago
The hardware minimums are real, and the complexity floor is significant. Do not deploy Ceph unless you mean it.

I started considering alternatives when my NAS crossed 100 TB of HDDs, and when a scary scrub prompted me to replace all the HDDs, I finally pulled the trigger. (ZFS resilvered everything fine, but replacing every disk sequentially gave me a lot of time to think.) Today I have far more HDD capacity and a few hundred terabytes of NVMe, and despite its challenges, I wouldn't dare run anything like it without Ceph.

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Can I ask what you use all that storage for on your NAS?