From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: Recover array after I panicked Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:22:33 +0100 Message-ID: <58FF93E9.6070408@youngman.org.uk> References: <20170424110455.GA4949@metamorpher.de> <20170424123706.GA6798@metamorpher.de> <20170424133946.GA7057@metamorpher.de> <727eeaf5-b856-305d-99b6-e42f3383b699@powerlamerz.org> <20170425001614.GA3936@metamorpher.de> <20170425090122.GA4488@metamorpher.de> <20170425110807.GA5159@metamorpher.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?UTF-8?Q?Patrik_Dahlstr=c3=b6m?= , Andreas Klauer Cc: Brad Campbell , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 25/04/17 12:37, Patrik Dahlström wrote: > I'm not sure how I would backup 20 TB of data. I'll backup what I can, > of course. The most essential. Buy some cheap disks :-) A quick skim gives me £111 for a 4TB drive, but that'll be tricky to find. It is a Barracuda, however ... https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/4TB-Seagate-Barracuda-5900rpm-SATA3-64Mb-HardDrive/ Better are 8TB (£260) or 10TB (£365, £420) drives, but they're pricy. https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/8Tb-Seagate-SkyHawk-7200rpm-SATA3-256Mb-Hard-Drive/ https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/10Tb-Seagate-IronWolf-7200rpm-SATA3-256Mb-Hard-Drive/ https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/10Tb-Seagate-IronWolf-Pro-7200rpm-SATA3-256Mb-Hard-Drive/ If it's just a temporary backup, I'd try and get another couple of drives same as your raid, and beg borrow or steal as many drives from your friends as you need. Your local little computer shop might have a load of drives salvaged from dead pc's that you can borrow (or maybe not :-( Cheers, Wol