Lots of storage
Aug. 4th, 2007 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothIf I buy one of these: 
and five of these: 
and stick it all together using Linux software RAID, will that work as a relatively cheap (£370) 2TB RAID-5 storage array?
Will it be very noisy, and if so, should I be looking at getting one of these too so I can stick it in another room?
As you might imagine, I'm giving the whole question of backups a lot of thought at the moment...
and five of these: and stick it all together using Linux software RAID, will that work as a relatively cheap (£370) 2TB RAID-5 storage array?
Will it be very noisy, and if so, should I be looking at getting one of these too so I can stick it in another room?
As you might imagine, I'm giving the whole question of backups a lot of thought at the moment...
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Date: 2007-08-04 07:28 pm (UTC)* Noise: I'm now thinking the easiest fix is to move it into the spare room. I have most of a PC built and this could complete it.
Having done that, of course, I'd feel bad for having two PCs on 24/7, so I would I think move all the 24/7 functions onto the file server (DNS/DHCP and such, recording TV), buy one of these for about £60 more, then re-purpose Trent as a dual boot desktop and games machine.
* RAID: Hard drives fail often enough that it's worth having a measure in place especially for that.
* 2TB: well, 0.5TB drives are the sweet spot at the moment, and 5 is the minimum for RAID to be economical, plus if I've exhausted the 400GB of storage I have at the moment and I'm planning on doing a lot more backing up, then a small improvement will just be a pain - I want *lots* more storage. Plus I'd like to be able to rip DVDs.