Wol -- ...and then antlists said... % % On 21/05/2020 13:30, David T-G wrote: % > % >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. Hmmm... % % 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. Heh. Except that this box has only three ports, so one was going to become USB storage or some such anyway. But that means I can't have a RAID10 vol ... % % 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. Good plan. % % Cheers, % Wol HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt
