Re: file server

[Stuart Barkley <sab13@4gh.net>]

On July 12, 2023 10:09:13 AM UTC, Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 7/12/23, Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav.v.v@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If your hardware supports 6 hard drives (5*18T + your 2T), you can use
>> lvm for merging 5 of them to one volume, or create raid0 by mdadm.
>> Some risks with plain disk merging - if one of your drives die, entire
>> volume dies.
>> It may be mitigated by use raid5 with 1 additional drive or raid6 with
>> 2 (see
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIDhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID)
>
>
>Almost typed something similar, just without as much technical
>knowledge to back it up. I like 5 separate, too. If one 18TB dies, the
>other 4 can keep on clicking depending on how one's system is set up.
>
>Cindy :)

It sounds like the OP doesn't need to keep the data.

For others doing RAID systems, be sure you replace failed drives and rebuild the RAID before another drive fails.  I've seen cases where the failure is ignored which only extends the time until hard failure.

Stuart