2008/12/16 Redeeman <redeeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 06:44 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hehe, i myself am in a somewhat similar position.. i have a 6x300gb > raid5 array.. And the disks appears perfectly fine through smart etc, > but on the other hand, a SINGLE new disk today can present me with the > same level of usable capacity very cheap, and ill bet using considerably > less power. ...and noise (from fans/etc), which is probably more important for me (it's next to the TV); but a single disk doesn't provide any redundancy, which I would prefer to have, I think. > Thus i have chosen to very soon retire this setup, and make > a replacement 8x1tb or 6x1.5tb raid6 for increased capacity and > safety :) Hrm. That's quite a Christmas present :) I don't think my sister can stretch to that. I think I'd be lucky to get just a single one. > > i'd recommend you work towards deprecating LOTS of drives in favor of > fewer bigger newer, and keep the old ones around as an archive/backup > thing. Yes, that sounds sensible. I guess I would like to do this in stages. 1) buy a 1TiB disk to do a backup 2) upgrade from 6+2/RAID5 to 7+1/RAID6 3) start building a new RAID6 starting with the 1TiB disk....somehow Max. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
