The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/PrettySmallBalls on 2024-12-25 05:03:49.

Figured this might be the place for this question. I picked up a couple 14TB Seagate Expansion externals for shucking on Black Friday. These are the ST14000NM0121 dual actuator SATA drives. I read if I create two equal partitions and set them up as RAID0 I can significantly increase read/write speeds. My tests seem to confirm this. My question is, is there any advantage to setting them up as two equal partitions and forgoing the RAID0 part? If they’re RAID0 and one of the actuators fails I know I’m dead in the water. If I have them as two separate filesystems and an actuator fails, can I still access the other partition?