Hello,
I'd like to setup Snapraid and MergerFS in my home server. I've got 2x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drives and 3x 4TB WD Red drives.
Ironwolfs are in mint condition, and run great, but when it comes to WD Reds it's a different story.
The first one is perfectly fine, the second one has Curent_Pending_Sector count of 4 and Multi_Zone_Error_Rate of 111, the third one throws some errors in logs so I took it out of the server.
So how should I approach setup? I' want to utilize disks until their EOL.
I'm thinking about doing merge of 1x 8TB Ironwolf and 1x 4TB WD Red (the good one) and using these drives and Content + Data.
Then when it comes to parity data I'd like to go with the second Ironwolf and the second WD Red (One with pending sectors). Should I merge them or use them separately? Will there be any issue with the second parity drive being smaller?
What about the third drive? Should I use that or be worried about data corruption?