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disks: Current state of the mythbox
2009-08-25 13:48:10 posted by Dark-Fx
Well it's been a few years since I last posted about the state of drives and such in the mythbox, so now's as good a time as any.

Previously I had been running software RAID5 on the mythbox with 6 500G disks. These disks are still around, but are now accompanied by a 3ware 9650SE-12ML hardware RAID card and 6 more drives, all in RAID6. These disks are accompanied by 4 750G disks in software RAID5 hanging off the onboard controller. I haven't done anything with the second array yet as it's a recent addition that was previously left out due to lack of space in the case. Running 16 hard disks in a single case requires a purpose built case.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              19G   15G  2.6G  86% /
/dev/sdb1             4.6T  2.7T  1.9T  60% /myth
/dev/md0              2.1T   75G  2.0T   4% /myth2

As you can see, I have more than enough space, at about 6.7 Terabytes usable with only 2.7 Terabytes used.