Gert> True, but what if I stick 2 IDE drives of 250 Gb in an external Gert> USB2 or Firewire box I have 500 Gb and speeds of 20 to 30 Gert> Mbyte/s at a fraction of the cost. And those boxes can be put Gert> into a safe too. Very true, but in this case, what happens to your data if one of those drives dies? There's a similar issue with backups spanning multiple tapes as well, so it's not even. Also, at 30mb/s, it will take around three hours to fill that 250gb disk. Are you sure you can sustain that kind of throughput? It's becoming a big issue with tape backups, being able to drive the tapes at their rated speed for the best compression/performance possible. But moving that much data in a short amount of time isn't always easy. For a cheap fileserver, I'd probably go with a 3ware controller, either four or 8 ports, with 250gb drives. For the four port controller you can do RAID5, but you give up the hot spare. For the eight port controller, you'd get 1.5tb of RAW blocks, with one parity and one hotspare disk. You'd probably get closer to 1.2tb of useable storage from the filesystem. Now how do you back that up? John _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
