even a 25/10 mbit would basically double profits, at well what does internet that speed cost… looks like the lowest i can get is 30$ - 300mbit /60mbit, but my node already earns 40$ and barely even at my designated half point mark, so i would double my profit but i would only add about 1/3 in monthly expenses, hardware excluded since it’s a more static cost.
besides the power is usually the main price when looking at years of usage… so why bother look into that to much… ofc HDD’s alone doesn’t take a lot of power…and is kinda expensive… so their power usage vs initial purchase price is a bit different rather than the full server / controller for the node.
but if we are comparing two new nodes, on different subnets on the same server…
vs 1 internet, assuming all hardware is equal in the math…
so for 30$ i could earn 10$ more a month…ofc now that i’m over half full with my current drives… then it’s less overhead… but still would have been nice if the node was full already.
ofc my next upgrade will most likely be 4x14tb or such drives, because i need to expand the pool in a good way… but then i run into lack of bays, but seems like my old onboard sata controller comes to the rescue and supports max density hdd’s even tho it’s 10 years old… with that i might just barely make it work, especially if i buy a ioaccelerator card thus moving the ssd l2arc on to the pcie bus.
then make a new pool on the 4x14tb… almost looks like a viable plan… was sure i would need to get a Disk shelf… just a good deal of money to put into hdd’s in one go but will give me an additional 42 TB of actual storage capacity + i will be able to restructure my “old” pool that i just completed like a month ago, into the new setup and thus gain more free space for little added risk.
had done the math the wrong way… figured 3 drives would be fine, but then i got to going over the numbers again… tho a nice mark and very safe, the 4th drive is really the optimal solution, because of the gain of 50% capacity from 3 to 4 drives with raidz1… ofc when expanding the pool one ends up expanding by 4 drives at a time… had done the math the other way around… looking at how much lost space i had… which is only 33% on a raidz1 with 3 drives… but thats irrelevant since it’s really the pool size compared to the price of the setup that matters…
and thus adding 50% more space for 1/3 extra cost 3 drives +1 is a good bargain…
ofc costs 1/3 more each time one upgrades and it makes everything 1/3 more difficult to work with…
but since there is diminishing returns i think i’m going to base my entire setup on 4 drive raidz1’s until i get wiser lol
and doing 4 drive would give me 9TB extra free capacity out of my current setup taking it to 33+42 so after my next upgrade i will be at 75 TB … almost seems to much of a jump… but i suppose i could look into renting space out to other services.
and that would be without redundancy… the actual space would be 100tb dedicated for projects such as storj
time flies, when you learn new things about linux hahaha
