Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.:
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> Buy another 500GB disk and do software RAID 5 if you really need 1TB of space.
> It won't be great, but it'll be a LOT safer than what you are proposing.
mdadm can even do RAID10 on three drives (IBM calls it RAID 1E). You'll
get 750GB of space with three 500GB drives. I am running such a setup
with three 1000GB drives.
J.
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