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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:13 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 1) Buy three (or even just two) 5400 RPM 3TB WD Red drives and go with |
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> RAID1. This would use the internal SATA2 ports so it wouldn't be the |
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> highest performance but likely a lot better than my SATA2 RAID6. |
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This. |
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Thinking into the future is important - drives tend to fill up faster when |
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you have more free space available. |
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Get three drives if possible, go RAID5, then when you run out of space (you |
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will), you just add one more and you're happy again. |
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This setup has one more advantage: You get to keep your old drives and |
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re-use them. |
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One interesting idea would be to use 3 of your old drives in a RAID5 setup |
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for Gentoo. It wouldn't be as fast as a couple of SSDs, but you're already |
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used to the speed and you instantly get two backup drives just in case one |
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of the old drives fails. You could also use the spare space on this array |
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for backups of critical stuff from the main raid. |
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You can always switch to SSDs for main system later :) |
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> Beyond this I need to talk file system types. I'm fat dumb and |
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> happy with Ext4 and don't really relish dealing with new stuff but |
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> now's the time to at least look. |
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New tech is nice, but I'd stick with ext4. Data is one of the few things on |
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my systems that I don't like to toy with. |
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Cheers, |
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Alex Alexander |
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+ www.linuxized.com |
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+ www.leetworks.com |
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