I'm currently trying to build myself a *home* fileserver w/ the following requirements: 1) Small, portable & durable 2) At least 240GB (maintain scalability) 3) Must be redundant (RAID 1 or 5) 4) Cannot exceed $850 The basic application of the device will be to hold backed up data, and to serve ogg/mp3 files. So far I haven't been able to find any 1U NAS turn-key raid solution for anything under $2000 for just the chasis! So this thing is going to have to be hacked together, and this is what I've come up with: 1 EPIA MB w/ VIA C3 800mhz Processor (mini ITX) A tailored case [ likely out of a tape deck ] 3 120GB IDE drives [Possilbe Raid Controller] Linux [ 2.4 or 2.5 kernel ] w/ NFS, apache, samba My ?'s are: Will the performance of a linux software raid level 5 be sufficient w/ the VIA C3 800mhz Processor? Will the data be safe under LSR? ie. If a disk dies, will I be warned? When I shutdown & replace the disk, will data remain? Am I better off using a 3Ware Escalade or a Promise FastTrax SX4000 to handle my array? Will I have to have a 4th HD to boot off of.. or can I create a custom bootable CD that will bring up my system (kernel, raid, apache, nfs, samba) ? Or should I boot directly from RAID? Thanks, Brice Burgess - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
