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[ale] Best 2TB drives to extend my RAID array?
- Subject: [ale] Best 2TB drives to extend my RAID array?
- From: rs at ale.spam.futz.org (Robert)
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 14:54:00 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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>My 1.8TB RAID(10) array is close to filling, and I'm looking to buy some
>additional drives to extend it. I was thinking that I'd buy a pair of
>7200RPM 2TB drives to effectively double my raid size,
I'd recommend that you buy drives from two different manufacturers... I
used to buy matched pairs, till I had a raid1 array go south with failures on
both drives. :-( I also recommend a complete read/write badblock check and
running SMART diagnostics before putting the new drives in service.
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