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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive error from SMART
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:17:20
Message-Id: c55f0507-537a-eb41-e137-1ce93a91112b@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-user] Hard drive error from SMART by Laurence Perkins
1 On 12/04/2022 18:21, Laurence Perkins wrote:
2 > You can get up to 16X SATA PCI-e cards these days for pretty cheap. So as long as you have the power to run another drive or two there's not much reason not to do RAID on the important stuff. Also, the SATA protocol allows for port expanders, which are also pretty cheap.
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4 > One of my favorite things about BTRFS is the data checksums. If the drive returns garbage, it turns into a read error. Also, if you can't do real RAID, but have excess space you can tell it to keep two copies of everything. Doesn't help with total drive failure, but does protect against the occasional failed sector. If you don't mind writes taking twice as long anyway.
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6 https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid
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8 https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/System2020
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10 That system in the second link is the system being used to type this
11 message ...
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13 Cheers,
14 Wol

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