Finally…FINALLY had time to start moving everything over from my old Mac Mini-based NAS to my “new” NAS.

For reference: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61180593

So far so good! Ultimately, I decided to start with a fresh install of the most recent OMV release (v8.5), and migrated my existing mdadm-managed RAID5 array to that. OMV picked it up immediately, which made that part very easy.

The tricky part I’m dealing with now is remapping the various shares to my Proxmox cluster and VMs. Because I started fresh, I changed things up a little bit and created a second “disk” for each of my four Proxmox-hosted Docker VMs, which will hold those containers’ user data (not the container itself). The secondary VM disks are hosted inside Proxmox’s own NFS mount from the NAS.

Maybe there’s a better way to map the storage, but honestly I’ve learned an absolute shitton about how to properly set up Linux permissions and service users through this whole process. Plus, if the Mac mini was shut off from a power interruption or whatever, I would still have to manually power-on each disk in its USB-connected enclosure.

Unfortunately, during this migration process, one of my 4TB Reds refused to play nice, and checking the SMART stats showed multiple failing sectors. It has 69k (nice) hours, same as its twin. I had anticipated this, as I bought the first pair of EFRX Reds back in 2018, so about a year or two ago I added a newish 4TB Black as a hot spare (already had it, wasn’t using it for anything else). By the time I found the dying Red, mdadm had already automatically removed the Red from the array, pulled in the spare Black, and rebuilt the array. Fucking awesome. Both legitimately and sarcastically…

Obligatory pics!

Fully assembled:

OS install:

And its original config from HP, right before I tore it apart. Check out that dust blanket:

Full specs:

Part	Name
Case	HP ProLiant ML110 Gen 2 (2004-ish)
Motherboard	Asus PRIME Q270M-C mATX
CPU	Intel Pentium G4560T
Memory	Samsung 1x8GB DDR4-2400
Power Supply	Rosewill Capstone 650W
CPU Cooler	Thermalright Assassin X SE
Case Fan	Noctua A12x25 120mm
Operating System	OpenMediaVault v8.5
OS Drive	Toshiba 128GB M.2 NVME SSD
Storage Management	LSI HBA 9211-8i - IT Mode
Storage Management	Rosewill 4 x 3.5" HDD Hot-Swap Cage (+fan)
RAID5 Storage	WD Red CMR 4TB 3.5" HDD
RAID5 Storage	WD Red CMR 4TB 3.5" HDD
RAID5 Storage	WD Red CMR 4TB 3.5" HDD
RAID5 Storage	WD Black 4TB 3.5" HDD (Hot spare - it’s CMR, too!)
RAID5 1:1 Backup	WD Red Plus CMR 8TB 3.5" HDD
Camera Storage	WD Purple 1TB 3.5" HDD