For your family photos/videos and work-related material, remember that RAID is not a backup solution, and you should still use something like an external hard-drive that you sync periodically and keep off-site, like at work. -S On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Drew <drew.kay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- Scott Armitage, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc. candidate Space Flight Laboratory University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies 4925 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6 -- 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
