Built for Failure

[Seabass]

At least 3 drives in a machine.
I have two machines, but I don't know how to spread my storage across them.

-------- Original Message --------
On Dec 30, 2020, 5:59 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:

> How many drive are you looking to spin up at one time? Across how many machines?
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 5:39 PM Seabass via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> That is a good question.
>> Probably not, though.
>>
>> Have a software raid version? I need to check what these have, but I don't think there is much beyond raid1 and raid0.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On Dec 30, 2020, 4:02 PM, Rusty Ramser < rusty_ramser at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Seabass.
>>>
>>> RAID-6 comes to mind, since it will support two disk failures simultaneously... and it sounds like you just may experience that with these disks. Does your disk controller hardware/software support configuring a RAID-6 array?
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Seabass via PLUG-discuss
>>> Sent: Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:01
>>> To: plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>>> Cc: Seabass <PrivateSeaBass at pm.me>
>>> Subject: Built for Failure
>>>
>>> Weird question:
>>>
>>> I can get a bunch of ancient (~2013) HDDs. Each have varying amounts of space, and few (if any) are ever the same size.
>>>
>>> These were marked to be disposed, though that is just because of age or having plenty that are better. Thus I can take them. However, them being this old, and having found about 3 that eventually broke or never worked, I'm left with this question:
>>>
>>> Because purchasing new drives takes too long (no idea when/if they would arrive), I can take as many of the decommissioned drives I'd like. Seeing as some failed, how does one build a system that is resilient to drives failing?
>>>
>>> It can be reset as much as wanted, hardware is literally in arm's reach, and there is not burning need for it to be up immediately.
>>> There is also massive (comparatively) external drive space and as many live boot USBs as one might desire.
>>>
>>> So how would one build a system that is designed expecting HDD failure regularly?
>>>
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