Re: 3 disk RAID1?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Kristleifur Daðason
<kristleifur@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP>
>>
>> When in doubt, read the manual two or three more times.
>>
>> This might also help you: http://wiki.tldp.org/LVM-on-RAID  I wrote
>> some background comparison sections when I made that...
>
> Good advice.
>
> The contents of the manual didn't really stick for me until I'd
> actually *done* the tasks I was trying to figure out. The beautiful
> and classic Catch-22 of learning new things. So I somewhat
> empathically suggest you obtain a virtual machine program and start up
> a few disposable virtual machines. (VirtualBox is pretty good and also
> free.) Try creating some RAID's on VM's and getting them to boot, try
> failing a device and readding it, etc.
>
> And keep the manual in a window next to the virtual machine's window :)
>
> -- Kristleifur
>

Exactly what I'm working on this afternoon. I've not created many VM's
from scratch so there's a learning curve there, but potentially making
the hard drives virtual in the new VM setup and then applying RAID to
them seems like a good way to practice.

Additionally I'm going to purchase maybe 3 or 4 drives and then see
about using the other SATA ports on my desktop motherboard to create
additional storage that I can get some real performance numbers on.

Thanks!

- Mark
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