Tracy R Reed wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
Another future time I could get another external drive and again set
it up as the second drive in a mirror pair. Repeat, storing old disk
drives somewhere until it is time to reuse them.
This is a good plan. Be sure to practice a few times to make sure
everything works as you expect. Unfortunately I have never actually done
this so I can't offer any scripts or howto's.
No, this is a *bad* plan.
You will rattle the internal disk *hard* because it will be rebuilding
he external disk regularly. It will fail much sooner than you expect.
The correct solution is to *alternate* which drive you move to storage.
The first time you store Bay A. And rebuild from Bay B. The *next*
time you store Bay B and rebuild from Bay A. That way no drive gets
rattled more than twice (once on its own initial rebuild, once to
rebuild the other drive, then taken to storage).
-a
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