On 7/12/23, Stanislav Vlasov <[email protected]> wrote: > ср, 12 июл. 2023 г. в 14:45, lina <[email protected]>: >> I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. >> I am thinking of adding 5 hard drives, each is 18TB, > > Some primitive calcs: 5*18T = 90T, not 100T. Maybe you need 6 hdd? > >> and then merge them into one volume? > > If your hardware supports 6 hard drives (5*18T + your 2T), you can use > lvm for merging 5 of them to one volume, or create raid0 by mdadm. > Some risks with plain disk merging - if one of your drives die, entire > volume dies. > It may be mitigated by use raid5 with 1 additional drive or raid6 with > 2 (see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAIDhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID)
Almost typed something similar, just without as much technical knowledge to back it up. I like 5 separate, too. If one 18TB dies, the other 4 can keep on clicking depending on how one's system is set up. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *
