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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:00:11 -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: |
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> I'm in the planning stages of setting up a file server and am |
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> considering using RAID. |
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> My concern is that my drive sizes are mixed. I have two 500GB SATA |
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> drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. |
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> I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk space is |
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> usable, but still be able to recover from any one drive failing. I would |
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> also like to be able to add drives of any size as easily as possible. |
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Create one 500GB RAID1 array with the SATA drives, then create a 250GB |
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array using the IDE drives. Only 80GB lost, which you could partition out |
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and use separately if you really need to. |
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You want something you can easily recover from in the event of a disk |
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failure, so keep it simple. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Loose bits sink chips. |