It feels kind of rude/braggish to say this, but my storage RAID is made up of individual drives that are each larger than that. But we all have to start somewhere! Nowhere in that comment is it implied that this was the final configuration for this server, just a “before you know it”
I built my RAID5 array back in 2018 or so, when 3 terabyte drives were about $100. Five active drives, a 6th hot spare, and a 7th cold spare waiting to go in when one of the first 5 fail… Which hasn’t happened yet. I’ve been considering putting the 7th drive in and making the 6th drive an active part of the array.
These days, I back up the array on to a 10 terabyte drive in my desktop computer that I bought for $120 IIRC about 2 years ago. Sigh.
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It feels kind of rude/braggish to say this, but my storage RAID is made up of individual drives that are each larger than that. But we all have to start somewhere! Nowhere in that comment is it implied that this was the final configuration for this server, just a “before you know it”
I built my RAID5 array back in 2018 or so, when 3 terabyte drives were about $100. Five active drives, a 6th hot spare, and a 7th cold spare waiting to go in when one of the first 5 fail… Which hasn’t happened yet. I’ve been considering putting the 7th drive in and making the 6th drive an active part of the array.
These days, I back up the array on to a 10 terabyte drive in my desktop computer that I bought for $120 IIRC about 2 years ago. Sigh.