Built for Failure

[Stephen Partington]

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.
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> 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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> -------- Original Message --------
> On Dec 30, 2020, 4:02 PM, Rusty Ramser < rusty_ramser at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi, Seabass.
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> 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?
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> Cheers.
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> *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
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> Weird question:
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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.
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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:
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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?
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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.
> There is also massive (comparatively) external drive space and as many
> live boot USBs as one might desire.
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> So how would one build a system that is designed expecting HDD failure
> regularly?
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