If you suffer a drive failure, your odds of a successful rebuild onto
that spare are decidedly mixed.
https://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=139050322510249&w=2
On 9/12/22 04:06, Wols Lists wrote:
On 12/09/2022 01:58, Phil Turmel wrote:
Hi Wol,
On 9/11/22 06:08, Wols Lists wrote:
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old one is still good I'd go for a 3-disk raid-5 plus spare. That's
my current setup.
Eww. Don't do that. Always convert raid5+spare to raid6.
At the moment the fourth drive is, in my mind, a transient backup. I
don't want to make it an actual part of the array in case I want to
remove it.
I'm thinking of getting a second matching drive, but seeing as I've
bought 16TB of drive space in the recentish past, another 8TB seems
excessive :-)
Cheers,
Wol
