The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Chance-Pineapple8198 on 2024-10-09 08:32:49.

Looking at some workstation configurations for an at-home, micro-HPC setup meant for scientific computing. I’ll be working with some pretty large (potentially as large as a TB or two at a time) datasets on-workstation, and am new to RAID and this level of storage. Based on some Googling and advice elsewhere, I’m converging on a 1 TB SSD boot drive, with two, 4 TB SSD pool drives and either one, 8 TB HDD or two, 4 TB HDDs for local redundancy (NAS will provide archival and backups). Since I’ve seen some conflicting results across the web/Reddit, is it possible to run the first configuration (the two 4 TB and the one 8 TB) in a software-level (Linux OS) RAID01 with the 8 TB drive as a “single-drive” RAID0, or do I have to go with the second configuration in a RAID01 with the standard four, 4 TB drives? If I’d be willing to either up the drive sizes or add up to two additional HDDs, is there a better configuration I should consider?