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 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@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@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Seabass via PLUG-discuss >>> Sent: Thursday, 31 December 2020 11:01 >>> To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> Cc: Seabass >>> 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? >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss