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Originally Posted by chaze
I just have boxes with foam that stores 16 in each. I have no idea what to do with the 30/40 working ones I still have.
I wish I can do some sort of raid cluster with them, any size any hard drive just swap as they die.
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Either of the popular Linux file server distros can do that, or of course if you're a geek you can use your choice of distro. The magic bit is "LVM mirroring". With LVM, all the drives are just one big storage pool (or any as many pools and subpools as you want.) LVM mirroring puts a copy of each extent on two drives, so it's like RAID 1 except the drives don't have to match.
I'm active with LVM-devel since it's important to Clonebox, so I can help with any LVM questions.