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After playing around with creating, splitting, and deleting volumes I find myself wondering about what is best to utilize as the 2nd physical HDD. I always thought match two identical drives per mirror. After utilizing SoftRAID I wonder if it might make sense just to get one huge 2nd physical HDD and mirror several disks to partitions on it. It would mean less physical drives to fail, have to be connected, etc. Is there a generally accepted better way - match each pair of drives or just have one huge 2nd drive?
Posted : 31/03/2017 3:19 pm
SoftRAID does support mirroring more than one disk to another, as you are thinking. You are correct it would mean less devices. On the other hand, if the large HDD fails, the secondary disks for all mirror volumes is gone.
Mirror is part of an overall strategy for archiving/backups. If Mirroring several disks to a single SoftRAID secondary makes sense as part of your strategy, than it is a great idea!
I have personally done this in the past, mirroring a pair of 1TB volumes onto a 2TB drive.
Posted : 31/03/2017 4:17 pm
