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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi, Seabass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Seabass via PLUG-discuss<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:01<br>
<b>To:</b> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Seabass <PrivateSeaBass@pm.me><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Built for Failure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Weird question:<br>
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I can get a bunch of ancient (~2013) HDDs. Each have varying amounts of space, and few (if any) are ever the same size.<br>
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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:<br>
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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?<br>
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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.<br>
There is also massive (comparatively) external drive space and as many live boot USBs as one might desire.<br>
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So how would one build a system that is designed expecting HDD failure regularly?<o:p></o:p></p>
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