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[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If two are dead, you probably should get at least one of them replaced. I'm assuming you are running a RAID 6 with zero redundancy at this point.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

O, that is a real cool feature. So you just lose space then as they fail, not redundancy.

[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It sure is!

In my case it's vulnerable while I re-balance.

btrfs can work with mixed-size disks and change RAID-levels on-line, too.