On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I built a new home server this weekend & am ready to load my O.S. > (Arch Linux) on it today. It has 4 x 320 GB Seagate Barracuda's > (SATA). I don't really have a specific function of this server at home > beyond holding my data reliably and decent read / write performance. > My question to you experts is what do you recommend I configure for > this particular configuration? Should I run RAID 5 or RAID 10? To > spare or not to spare? I really appreciate any best suggestions for > general over all function on this matter. > > -Carlos I'm not an expert so take my input with a grain of salt but you don't state how much space you need on the machine. Is 320GB enough? If so consider a 3-drive RAID1 and save the 4th drive as a spare. That's what I run using 3-drive 500GB WD drives. Works well over the last few months. Keep in mind that as a newbie, if you repeat any of my learning curve, booting from RAID is more difficult. I chose to not use RAID for the /boot sector and just duplicated the grub setup and kernel + grub files. If my Drive 0 goes down and I cannot I can reset the boot drive in BIOS and boot from the second or third drives. Hope this helps, Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
