TBCS 5TB club

[Mark_Hardware]

I have 5.45TB accross 3 2TB HDDs (nothing like losing 500GB to formatting) plus my 320GB boot drive...

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Are those 3x 2TB drives managed in some sort of RAID? What OS?

[Waynio]

Only just .

Oh & they are simply connected to motherboard, all 6 sata ports are used, I use an IDE dvd drive.
Windows 7 home premium 64bit, used everest for the screenshot
32gb free
320gb free
337gb free
243gb free
658gb free
612gb free
So plenty of free space .

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OS? (I'm guessing some version of Windows from the screenshot) Drive management? Full space?

[Mark_Hardware]

I just have the three drives set as one dynamic disk in windows. I was trying for RAID 0, but I couldn't get it to work for the life of me so I said screw it.

[Trace]

I'm going to try. My server has 2 1TB drives + 2 320GB in my main PC + 1.5TB for another, 4 * 500GB RAIDed for my bro's PC

[Kayin]

If you're gonna run RAID, run RAID.

I just picked up one of these hosses on Ebay...

http://www.6thstreetshops.com/int-srcsas18e.html

Population shall commence upon receipt.

[crenn]

I could have sworn I had posted in here. Current setup after some upgrading:

1x 500 WD
2x 1TB 7200.12 Seagates
2x 2TB Seagate LPs

This will be moving to

1x 1TB Seagate 7200.12
3x 2TB Seagate LPs

And then when I can get my next bits for my next computer

1x 500GB WD
3x 2TB Seagate LPs

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Well, I was getting dangerously close to 750GB of free space on my array, and Newegg just happened to have my favorite 1.5TB HDD on a great sale! So, I grabbed one of those, and massive props to Newegg for crazy fast shipping! I ordered it at noon yesterday, and it arrived at about 1PM today!

Now, to grow my array.... O_O

When I first started the process, it said it would take...somewhere around 7.5 months. ... ... Needless to say, it's sped up quite a bit, and now it looks like it should be done in only 17 hours! We'll see..

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w00tz! Done! Between growing the array and the filesystem, it took almost exactly 23 hours. And now for the results

khar0n@faust:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/faust-root
                      3.2G  1.8G  1.3G  60% /
udev                 1001M  260K 1000M   1% /dev
none                 1001M     0 1001M   0% /dev/shm
none                 1001M  288K 1000M   1% /var/run
none                 1001M     0 1001M   0% /var/lock
none                 1001M     0 1001M   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sdg5             228M   16M  200M   8% /boot
/dev/md0              6.8T  4.5T  2.0T  70% /home/khar0n/faust

EDIT:
Also, here's a picture of Faust in its temporary home.