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From: John Obaterspok <john.obaterspok@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Recommended sw raid setup
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:16:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinghqiT4QbBb--X7Eh_RRWnRg_0RQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinbBu6zX-6s2NYH5BQvnaJZJYt_BA@mail.gmail.com>

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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       reply	other threads:[~2011-07-02 11:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <BANLkTinbBu6zX-6s2NYH5BQvnaJZJYt_BA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-02 11:16 ` John Obaterspok [this message]
2011-07-02 19:45   ` Recommended sw raid setup Drew
2011-07-02 19:48     ` Scott E. Armitage
2011-07-02 21:17     ` Simon Matthews
2011-07-02 21:25       ` Scott E. Armitage
2011-07-02 21:30       ` Drew
2011-07-05  6:14         ` Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner
2011-07-05  6:40           ` Drew
2011-07-03 17:28       ` David Brown
2011-07-03 19:14         ` John Obaterspok
2011-07-03 20:05           ` David Brown
2011-07-03  7:46   ` Emmanuel Noobadmin

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