Hi All,
I have the following 4 drives in my HP microserver:
2tb (1.6tb free)
2tb (260gb free)
3tb (40gb free)
4tb (2tb free)
I want to setup Snapraid to give me some redundancy. I read that you need to choose your largest disk for parity. The issue is I don't want to use my 4tb disk as the most it will ever use is 3tb in parity if I've understood it correctly (the largest data disk should be the max size of the parity). It seems a bit wasteful to use a 4TB just for parity.
All have data on them but none are full and I could move data around if I wanted to but I don't really want to partition any drives (they are all using max size and one partition on each).
Some advice would be really appreciated on the best way to most efficiently use these drives in snapraid .
Thanks!
M
OMV