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Quick hdd raid question
cosmicgate
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hi guys, with the SSd price drastically dropping in tge last couple months I've since upgraded all my pc drives to SSd and now I'm left with 3 old drives: a 320gb, 500gb and 1tb hdd. Can I run these drives with different capacity on raid 5?if yes, Are there any good online tutorials out there that you can point me to?Thanks
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Get Ranty to help you ;-)
No thanks, Randy will just tell everyone what porn I have on those drives
With a standard RAID 5, you'll be limited by the size of the smallest drive.
@nickM . In this case , I only have a disk space of 320gb if I raid those 3 drives?
Yes
It'll be 640GB if you use RAID5.
/dev/md0 - RAID 5 - 320GB x 3 - Usable 640GB
/dev/md1 - RAID 1 - Remainder 180gb (500GB - 320GB) - Usable 180GB
/dev/sdc4 - No RAID - Remainder 500gb (1TB - 500GB) - Usable 500GB
Total available 1.32TB, 820GB raid protected data can withstand any 1 disk to fail. Important porn you cannot afford to lose in /dev/md0 or /dev/md1, porn you can afford to lose /dev/sdc4.
Alternately I'd probably do this to avoid the RAID5 XOR since the raid protected capacity is the same but you lose non raid capacity.
/dev/md0 - RAID 1 - 320GB + 320GB (from 1TB) - Usable 320GB
/dev/md1 - RAID 1 - 500GB + 500GB (from 1TB) - Usable 500GB
/dev/sdc4 - No Raid - 180GB (from 1TB) - Usable 180GB
I think Btrfs allows you to put drives with different sizes together and have some level of redundancy at the same time