I’m planning on building a new home server and was thinking about the possibility to use disc spanning to create matching disk sizes for a RAID array. I have 2x2TB drives and 4x4TB drives.
Comparison with RAID 5
4 x 4 TB drives
- 1 RAID array
- 12 TB total
4 x 4 TB drives & 2 x 2 TB drives
- 2 RAID arrays
- 14 TB total
5 x 4* TB drives
- Several 4TB disks and 2 smaller disks spanned to produce a 4 TB block device
- 16 TB total
I’m not actually planning on actually doing this because this setup will probably have all kinds of problems, however I do wonder, what would those problems be?
New Lemmy Post: Using disc spanning for RAID array (https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/16203989)
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