On 21/05/2020 13:30, David T-G wrote:
% > % % > % Seagate Barracudas:-( % > % > Yep. They were good "back in the day" ... % % Still are. Just not for raid.. Oh! Well, that's nice to know. Of course, I had been hoping to move these out to another system after upgrading to larger, but maybe that's not an option:-( They are going to be worlds better than the existing crap drives in there now, though, so here's hoping I can put them to use.
General advice is don't use them for parity raid - ie 5 or 6! They're okay (but not adviseable) for mirrors.
So if you really want to use them in a raid array, I'd go for a 6TB raid-10. Okay, you've lost 3TB of disk space, but you've bought a 66% chance of surviving a 2-disk failure.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with mine. I've bought an add-in eSATA card to go with my eSATA drive bay, so I may well use them as external backups.
Cheers, Wol
