RAID, SCSI vs ATA
Tim Emerick <timothyemerick-/[email protected]>
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I have a storage server setup at my house. It's an old P2-400 with 2-250gb HD's (non-raided). I'm constantly having to move files around to balance them between the 2 discs so one doesn't fill up. I've been wanting to put together something together so I could have a storage area that just looks like a big disk as well as maybe add some data protection (family pix being a form of currency around here and all) and RAID5 has come to mind. I recently came into a Dell PowerEdge 2500 server. It's an old P3 with 9 hot-swappable SCSI drive bays and includes 3 18g drives. Only problem is that SCSI drives are relatively expensive and they seem small for my purpose. I would like to put in 5 PATA or SATA 250GB drives since they are relatively inexpensive and RAID them together with Linux which should result in a 1TB storage device. Speed is not necessarily a consideration. 1 large space with HD failure protection is. Anybody have any experience with this? or should I just go buy a standalone NAS box with 1TB of storage? That PowerEdge sure is big and noisy and I'm sure a heck of a power drain. I welcome any suggestions from the group. Tim _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.b9.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nmlug