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.

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On Dec 30, 2020, 4:02 PM, Rusty Ramser 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@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Seabass via PLUG-discuss
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> Cc: Seabass <PrivateSeaBass@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?