<p>Not a direct answer, but related.</p>
<p>Is 3TB enough? Because there are reasonablly priced 3TB disks out there. I got two WD Green ones for backups. </p>
<p>The trick is to use parted, with some trick that I forgot now (but easily Googleable), because fdisk does see over 2TB.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 11, 2013 9:02 AM, "unsolicited" <<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm running out of backup space, so I'm probably going to buy a larger drive, and move a current drive into another computer - expecting to bundle it with the drive already there into a single logical presentation. (Add 4TB, move 2TB -> 2TB + 2TB = 4TB.)<br>
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I don't 'do' RAID (at least at home, where high availability isn't an issue), and mistrust striping - lose 1 drive, both be gone. I prefer to say 'this' amount of space for 'this' purpose, so when I run out of space I'm aware of and address the issue.<br>
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(Presumably a worst case scenario for such bundling upon failure is losing one file - the one that crosses physical drives. Correct, even today?)<br>
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I've known for some time LVM is out there, just never needed it. There's also mdadm ('LINEAR') [Which I gather LVM calls upon.]<br>
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Any particular pros / cons / preferences / suggestions / thoughts for bundling multiple drives into a single logical drive?<br>
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I'm guessing the only reasonable drive out there at the moment is a WD Black - (5 yr warranty, 7200, SATA3, availability / stock levels). Counter suggestions?<br>
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