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Skydancer@pawb.social 1 month agoAbsolutely not. At those densities, the write speed isn’t high enough to trust to RAID 5 or 6, particularly on a new system with drives from the same manufacturing batch (which may fail around the same time). You’d be looking at a RAID 10 or even a variant with more than two drives per mirror. Regardless of RAID level, at least a couple should be reserved as hot spares as well.
femtech@midwest.social 1 month ago
Yeah I have 6 14tb drives in raid 10, I’ll get 2 more if i need it.