On 21/05/20 14:17, David T-G wrote: > % 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 ... Three SATA ports? That sounds very stingy! (Or is it four, but one's the DVD?) This is what I've bought for my new PC https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Port-Express-eSATA-Controller-Silver-Black/dp/B00952N2DQ/ref=pd_ybh_a_47?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2B248DH9763DDGHGN5A6 An expensive gaming mobo, with 6 SATA ports, but if I want NVMe, or a second graphics card, or whatever whatever, some of the lanes get taken away. And of course I do want a 2nd graphics card (this machine is destined to be double-headed, when I can get it to work :-) And then for my old system, I'm planning to buy https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07T8XNQT6/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=A32IGEZ3DX93HZ&psc=1 or something similar. That machine has 5 SATA ports (or only 4 if PATA-mode is enabled), and I'm planning to stick a bunch of 500GB or 1TB drives in it for playing with. So especially if I split the 1TB drives into 500GB partitions, that's some humungous raids for testing with :-) Cheers, Wol
