From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Obaterspok Subject: Recommended sw raid setup Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:16:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, I've going to setup a _home_ file server to store all photos & family videos, work related material, DNLA streaming=A0and 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 i= n RAID5? Please help, I'm completely lost! --john -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html