Re: file server
On 7/12/23, Stanislav Vlasov <stanislav.v.v@gmail.com> wrote:
> ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>:
>> I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data.
>> I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB,
>
> Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd?
>
>> and then merge them into one volume?
>
> 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 :)
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