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How many drives are you talking about using. If you have a bunch of
them, like 6 to 9 drivers, you could combine them into <br>
2 or 3 groups of roughly equal size and then make a each chunk a
RAID 0 and then RAID those chunks up with either RAID1 or RAID5/6
depending on how much redundancy you want. You could also reserve
a couple of drives as spares if you wanted then to be able to
automatically rebuild the drive if any of the drives fail.<br>
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Brian Cluff<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/30/20 3:00 PM, Seabass via
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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?<br>
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