Hi John, Personally I think you'd be fine with consumer grade drives. Put them in a RAID-5 array and you should be set. The high end consumer & enterprise stuff w/ TLER and the like is only really needed if you put a lot of demand on the disks, running virtual machines for example. A basic file server for home use won't stress the drives enough to need the more expensive ones. -Drew On 07/02/2011, John Obaterspok <john.obaterspok@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've going to setup a _home_ file server to store all photos & family > videos, work related material, DNLA streaming and more. > > The server will be set to suspend when not in use for an hour or so. > > I've been thinking about buying 3 x 3 TB SATA disks and put these in > software RAID5 (except for a smaller boot partition on all three disks > which will be RAID1). > > Any recommendation for what SATA drives to get? Should I get > enterprise drives that support TLER (or alike), or will the greener > low cost drives be enough, is there something in between? > > Is it better to buy 4 low cost drives in RAID1 or 3 enterprise drives in > RAID5? > > Please help, I'm completely lost! > > --john > -- > 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 > -- Sent from my mobile device Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie "This started out as a hobby and spun horribly out of control." -Unknown -- 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
