Noticed no one ever responded to this.. but.. I agree that you should go with software raid and use md. The only drawbacks I'd say for this are that it's not SATA, and I'd question what this means: >> Each drive shows independatly to the operating system with top transfer speeds reaching 34Mps Since it's USB 2.0 it should be nearing 60MB/sec, so not sure where they get the 34Mps number from.. and, is it 34Mb or 34MB? I'm hoping they at least mean 34MB. Have you looked into the Buffalo LinkStation or TeraStation NAS products at all? Chet On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Scott Ehrlich <scott@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm looking for a cheap external raid solution for a RedHat Workstation 5 > box. > > My plan would be a device, such as possibly the > http://www.cooldrives.com/qubayalretru.html > > and load it with four drives. Since the device itself likely does not > support RAID 5, I'd anticipate the four drives could simply appear as four > individual volumes, and I'd use the RH 5 tools to create a software RAID 5. > > Any known problems/limitations with this idea? > > What other, similar devices, possibly more reliable, are available? > > Portability would be really nice. If the PC it is connected to goes down, > I could simply build up another box and connect this device to the new > system. > > The goal is to have it act as hard drive storage for backups of mounted > CIFS volumes. Not currently mission-critical data, but it would be very > nice to have a low-cost RAID 5 backup setup to start with. > > Thanks. > > Scott > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- ---------------------------------------- chet nichols III chet.nichols@xxxxxxxxx aim: chet / twitter: chet http://chetnichols.org ---------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
