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. How about 2 drives in a RAID0 or LVM configuration and the other two in another machine and used for backups? Simon -- 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
