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.
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.