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  • I did it, well… because I could.

    That is a very valid reason. I could see setting it up to learn more about how IPv6 works. I just wanted to see if I could get any actual advantages with it.

    office situation where there are a large number of devices

    That would make sense as a place to have it. Having a large number of devices where each having an external IP would be handy. My environment really only needs one or two devices having direct external access.


  • I mean, I don’t have NAT traversal between my NAS and devices on my lan now, they are routed because they are different VLANs but that would happen anyway.

    Do people have problem with ip conflicts? I guess if I wasn’t running DHCP that would be possible.

    Right now NAT is my main firewall between most devices and the wider internet, but I do still run pfsense and have firewall rules in place.

    Switching over to IPv6 seems like it would be extra work for very little actual benefit.





  • It will take a long time and while it runs it will use a lot of resources so the server can be bogged down. It is also a dangerous time for a NAS, because if you have a drive down, and another drive dies, the whole pool can collapse. The process involves reading every bit on every drive, so it does put strain on everything.

    Some people will go out of their way to buy drives from different manufacturing batches so if one batch has a problem, not all of their drives will fail.

    The way striping works (at an eli5 level) is you have a bunch of drives and one is a check for everything else. So let’s say you have four 10tb drives. Three would be data and one would be the check, so you get 30tb of usable space.

    In reality you don’t have a single drive working as a check, instead you spread the checks across all of the drives, if you map it out with “d” being data and “c” being check it looks like this: dddc ddcd dcdd cddd

    This way each drive has the same number of checks on it, and also why we call it striping.