Re: Fuck me with a broomstick backwards
I look forward to hearing about it!
I only have 4x2TB RE4-GP... I like that idea though! Do you have heat problems?
As for migration, using linux MD and RAID 1(UUUU) and RAID6(UUUU), since the new drive is so much larger for previous upgrades, I have always put full copies at the "end" of the new disks, so that they get a stress test, as well as a way of keeping copies of the data. Of course, adjust the encryption level of the "temp" to accommodate the highest level of your data...
Failing a drive on purpose is always a bit nerve racking. So I hook up the external SATA (!) to give the drive the dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdN bs=1M and pre-write the entire drive, generate the bulk copies, and then fail one drive in the dock, change for new drive, then allow MD sync. This can take a while...
So far , Linux MD has been very good.
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