How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

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Performance is covered in the MPG in-depth review of the HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 hard drive. But what are the best ways to utilize and backup such storage?

Four different ways to use such storage are now published:

• Using High Capacity Drives Singly (non-RAID)
• Using High Capacity Drives in a RAID-0 Stripe Volume
• Using High Capacity Drives as Single Large RAID-4 / RAID-5 Volume
• Using High Capacity Drives as RAID-4 / RAID-5, Multiple Volumes

Three huge volumes, all RAID-4 fault tolerant using SoftRAID, from five HGST Ultrastar He8 8TB hard drives