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Unknown: ChemIT to confirm drives pass a drive test. If they do, format and redeploy thempass the test, re-deploy them.

• Do a "quick test: Test uses drive tools which //retain// all existing data.

Result would be status quo:

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Unknown: ChemIT to confirm other 5 drives pass a drive test. If they do, format and redeploy at least 4 of them.

• Do a "long test:Test using drive tools which //wipes out// all existing data.

Unknown: A hard drive port in the head-node might not be usable. If needed, it would need to be confirmed it can still work.

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• 6TB of space.
  • Four 3TB drives on hardware RAID card, so 2 could fail (RAID 6).
  • Have one spare drive "on hand".
  • Data currently at 3.1TB, and growing.

Usage

• ~800 cores are used by ~20 people, sometimes running 30 programs (at once?).

Add functionality to the system: Backup

Option1: In-room, off-box, copy

HDs in a dedicated computing box.

Option1: Out of room

HDs in a dedicated computing box.

Hosted file service.

EZ-Backup.

• $850-1,650/yr, depending on level of file compression.