The OS, as well as the swap partition, are on an SSD drive, therefore using the SSD would be much faster. Plus those disks will have enough to do having to keep the raid 6 array in sync... :-) >From what pretty much all of you have suggested, there shouldn't be any changes in size with future disks I might purchase but it's still best to leave a few MB just in case... I will therefore leave 10MB at the end of each disk, pray for the best and, in case it goes horribly wrong, I'll blame all of you! Just kidding! LOL Cheers, Andrea On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 18:38, Andrea Bolandrina wrote: >> Hi Tudor. >> >> All disks I have report the same size, even though they are different >> brand/model > > Discussion on this list in the past would suggest the manufacturers have > agreed to make equal sized drives in future, so this shouldn't really be > an issue for 2TB drives or larger. > >> If the 2 WD RED bahave as they should I might buy some more as soon as >> the others fail, >> otherwise I will try something different (that's why I want to keep >> the system as flexible as possible). > > Why not just put a 2G swap partition at the end of each drive, if needed, > you can reduce the swap partition on the new drive if it is a bit smaller > than the rest, you have up to 2G of flexibility.... (or 1G etc..) This > means the space isn't wasted overall, but there is no issue if you need to > make it a bit smaller/larger/etc... > >> The 2 samsung SMART infos are already "screaming for help" and, >> actually, a third Samsung already failed last year. >> Terrible drives, terrible support from Samsung that replaced the drive >> (still under warranty) with a refurbished one that failed within 10 >> days from arrival. > > Personally, apart from a "batch" of WD Caviar Black drives that all failed > within a week, of had really good experience with them, and also the WD > RE4 drives.... I haven't yet tried the red, but would be interested to > hear how you go. > > Regards, > Adam > -- 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
