>>>>> "Wols" == Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Wols> On 13/09/20 13:50, John Stoffel wrote: >> I know, I really need to buy another drive, but my main system is >> full, so I *also* need to either get a new case, or one of those 5 x >> 3.5" into 3 x 5.25" bay cages to make some room. Decisions... decisions... Wols> I know I keep on saying it, but I really think I'm close to getting my Wols> new main system (and hence my development system) sorted, and I think I Wols> need to buy one of those cages too. I've been looking at them for a while now, but hesitating because... not sure why. I'm using a CoolerMaster case with five 5.25" bays, plus a 3.5" bay external, and another three or four internal 3.5" bays. Works great. Nice and plain and not flashing lights or other bling. And not too loud either. Which is good. But I've used crappy drive cages before, crappy hot swap ones. Not good. And I think it's time I just went with a 4U rack mount with a bunch of hot swap bays, if I could only find one that wasn't an arm and a leg. Wols> If you did get those two 8TB drives, you could still have your Wols> 8TB 3-way mirror without needing any more bays/sata-ports. Very true. Wols> My problem, of course, is if I'm playing with raid layouts I Wols> need as many disks as I can cram in :-) I'm counting 6 tucked Wols> away in my drawer, which means I'll almost certainly need to add Wols> an add-in 4-way sata card, and as those drives are a mixture of Wols> 500GB and 1TB, I'll probably split the 1TBs into 2x500GB and Wols> ignore md complaining that I have multiple components on the Wols> same physical disk ... It's not a bad plan for testing, but using a setup like that isn't good for actual performance numbers since you'll have too much contention for IOPS. Dammit, I just gotta pull the trigger. :-)
