General beginner questions about the Node

[Alexey]

Hello @dsimon24cx ,
Welcome to the forum!

@josh

or spanning the existing drive to an additional disk

Please, never do that. With one disk failure the whole node is lost. Run two (3, 4, 5, …) nodes instead.
The RAID5 is not safe with todays disks too:

Hardware configuration and receiving mail with token

8 disks is not few disks. You may think you’re running a small risk, but you’re absolutely not. Please read this: The Latest - Whether RAID 5 is still safe in 2019 - Digistor Australia If you don’t want to read the entire article, here is the most important image. [image] With your setup in RAID5, you’re almost guaranteed to fail a rebuild. Have enterprise level HDD’s with lower URE rates? The image does look better, but still not great at all. [image] It seems the P440 supports online …

See also RAID vs No RAID choice

@josh

if the node data is lost you would need to create a new node using a different authorization token.

and a new identity: Step 5. Create an Identity - Storj Docs
Do not copy the existing one - it will be disqualified in seconds!