Re: Recommended sw raid setup

[Simon Matthews <simon.d.matthews@gmail.com>]

I thought that I had read the TLER was not useful for mdraid, so that
enterprise drives were not really advised for mdraid. Am I wrong about
this?

Also, for the original question: for a home system, do you really need
the uptime  that RAID provides? I suspect not -- in that case, put
your money into backups, not RAID.

Simon

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Personally I think you'd be fine with consumer grade drives. Put them
> in a RAID-5 array and you should be set.
>
> The high end consumer & enterprise stuff w/ TLER and the like is only
> really needed if you put a lot of demand on the disks, running virtual
> machines for example. A basic file server for home use won't stress
> the drives enough to need the more expensive ones.
>
>
> -Drew
>
> On 07/02/2011, John Obaterspok <john.obaterspok@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've going to setup a _home_ file server to store all photos & family
>> videos, work related material, DNLA streaming and more.
>>
>> The server will be set to suspend when not in use for an hour or so.
>>
>> I've been thinking about buying 3 x 3 TB SATA disks and put these in
>> software RAID5 (except for a smaller boot partition on all three disks
>> which will be RAID1).
>>
>> Any recommendation for what SATA drives to get? Should I get
>> enterprise drives that support TLER (or alike), or will the greener
>> low cost drives be enough, is there something in between?
>>
>> Is it better to buy 4 low cost drives in RAID1 or 3 enterprise drives in
>> RAID5?
>>
>> Please help, I'm completely lost!
>>
>> --john
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